| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | AUTHORS $100 (Daily Double): Sinclair Lewis created this guy, a symbol of materialist conformity; Matthew Broderick played him on stage in 2024 Babbitt |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | AUTHORS $400: Andrew Neiderman has written 60+ books under the name of this "Flowers in the Attic" author plus her bio, "The Woman Beyond the Attic" V.C. Andrews |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Right Stuff" defined the new journalism as using fiction techniques in reporting Wolfe |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | AUTHORS $1200: Early novelists often titled books after a character; see Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews", "Jonathan Wild" & this 1749 tale Tom Jones |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | AUTHORS $2000: In 2023 an amateur scholar found a creepy story by this Irish novelist, "Gibbet Hill", from an 1890 newspaper & unpublished since Bram Stoker |
| #4, aired 2025-01-24 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $400: His lawyer characters Jake Briggins, Adam Hall & Reggie Love could start a firm Grisham |
| #4, aired 2025-01-24 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $800: Thidwick, the Dr. Seuss big-hearted moose, barely survives his decisions to let a multitude of animals do this live on him (living in his antlers) |
| #4, aired 2025-01-24 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $1200: His "Gift" was Saul Bellow's 1975 gift to readers Humboldt |
| #4, aired 2025-01-24 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $2000: She's the youngest & possibly the most annoying of Jane Austin's Bennett sisters Lydia |
| #4, aired 2025-01-24 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a 1973 book by her, Deenie has to deal with scoliosis as well as regular seventh-grade issues Judy Blume |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | AUTHORS $200: This author with the given names Elwyn Brooks said he never liked Elwyn but he was a sixth child & his mom ran out of names E.B. White |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | AUTHORS $400: A lifelong Baltimorean, this "Red Storm Rising" author was a part-owner of baseball's Orioles (Tom) Clancy |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | AUTHORS $600: In 1990 she put her vampires on hold for "The Witching Hour" Rice |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | AUTHORS $800: This author who has set several of his novels in New Hampshire was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942 John Irving |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | AUTHORS $1000: All hail this Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Demon Copperhead" & "The Poisonwood Bible" Kingsolver |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: A fantasy romance series by Sarah J. Maas kicks off with "A Court of Thorns &" these flowers roses |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: David Lagercrantz took over from this Swedish author, writing about Lisbeth Salander in "The Girl in the Spider's Web" Larsson |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In the movie adaptation, Cate Blanchett played the title Ms. Fox, who goes missing before a family trip in "Where'd You Go" her Bernadette |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: His novels "Dear John" & "The Longest Ride" were made into films Nicholas Sparks |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Use "The Power of Now" to name this German-born author of "The Power of Now" Eckhart Tolle |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | AUTHORS INITIALLY $400: He was present at Utah Beach on D-Day; a year & a bit later, his first work featuring Holden Caulfield was published J.D. Salinger |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | AUTHORS INITIALLY $800: This author grew up in Bexley, Ohio, though probably not on "Fear Street", which he turned into a book series in 1989 (R.L.) Stine |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | AUTHORS INITIALLY $1200: In the early 20th c. he was only 8 when he started writing stories about a fantasy land called Boxen populated by animals (C.S.) Lewis |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | AUTHORS INITIALLY $2000: This "Broken Earth" trilogy novelist called herself an "obsessed space child" growing up N.K. Jemisin |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | AUTHORS INITIALLY $4,000 (Daily Double): In 2017 this author said, "I grew up in a greaser neighborhood" but got put in high school classes with Socs (S.E.) Hinton |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS $800 (Daily Double): Her East Sussex grave says, "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O death! The waves broke on the shore" Virginia Woolf |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS $800: The P. stood for Phillips & he's in the Phillips family plot in Providence under the inscription "I am Providence" H.P. Lovecraft |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS $1200: This author of "Goodnight Moon" is described on her tombstone as "writer of songs and nonsense" Brown |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS $2000: A quote from his "The Deer Park" about the importance of continual growth adorns the grave of this controversial American novelist Norman Mailer |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | FRENCH AUTHORS $800: The movie "Time Regained" is about this memory-obsessed French novelist Proust |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | FRENCH AUTHORS $1200: Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux has written intensely personal memoirs & melded her own history with France's in "Les années", i.e. these The Years |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | FRENCH AUTHORS $1600: This 16th century French doctor-author is a symbol of raunchy humor--just add "-ian" Rabelais |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | FRENCH AUTHORS $2000: This infamous author of "Justine" & "Juliette" was a prisoner in the Bastille the Marquis de Sade |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: She dedicated "Frankenstein" to her father William Godwin Shelley |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Called "zippy, zesty, and zotty", this debut novel cooked up by Bonnie Garmus became a streaming series starring Brie Larson Lessons in Chemistry |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: Joan Didion established her reputation as an essayist with her 1968 collection "Slouching Towards" this place Bethlehem |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: In a letter to pen pal across the sea Harriet Beecher Stowe, she discussed her own novel "Daniel Deronda" (George) Eliot |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $5,800 (Daily Double): You can breathe easier knowing that Terry McMillan wrote a sequel to this novel called "Getting to Happy" Waiting to Exhale |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Best known for his Alaska-based adventures, one involving dogs, he spent lots of time in Hawaii before his death in 1916 London |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: During WWII this author of "The Red Pony" served as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune John Steinbeck |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: This author of "The Accidental Tourist" is good friends with a fellow Baltimore resident, director John Waters Anne Tyler |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: In 1992 this "Naked Lunch" author had a shaman perform an exorcism on him to cast out what he called "the ugly spirit" Burroughs |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: She made appearances in the movies "Rumble Fish" & "The Outsiders", both based on her novels Hinton |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Better known for her mysteries, she wrote a handful of romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott Agatha Christie |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: This "Brave New World" author was the grand-nephew of poet & critic Matthew Arnold Huxley |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1600: C.S. Lewis was Clive Staples; this "Hornblower" author was Cecil Scott C.S. Forester |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: This "Brideshead Revisited" author passed away on Easter Sunday in 1966, soon after returning home from mass Waugh |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $5,000 (Daily Double): Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he was named for explorer Amundsen Roald Dahl |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | AUTHORS BEFORE AUTHORING $400: She taught French & was on public assistance in the 1990s, but money was no longer an issue in 2023; she was worth $1 billion Rowling |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | AUTHORS BEFORE AUTHORING $800: An ambulance driver during World War I, in high school, he was a member of the swim team & the rifle club Hemingway |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | AUTHORS BEFORE AUTHORING $1200: This Alabamian was working for an airline when she got a 1956 Xmas gift: "one year off from your job to write whatever you please" Harper Lee |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | AUTHORS BEFORE AUTHORING $2000: After quitting medical school at Johns Hopkins, she moved with her brother Leo to Paris, where she met Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | AUTHORS BEFORE AUTHORING $3,000 (Daily Double): During World War II he flew 60 combat missions as a U.S. Air Force bombardier... isn't that crazy? Or maybe not Joseph Heller |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | ANAGRAMMED AUTHORS $200: British dame who wrote 66 detective novels: TAHITI HAS GRACE Agatha Christie |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | ANAGRAMMED AUTHORS $400: Author born Eric Blair: GORE LOWER LEG George Orwell |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | ANAGRAMMED AUTHORS $600: First African-American woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: WEAKER LILAC Alice Walker |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | ANAGRAMMED AUTHORS $800: Born & died in Concord:
A VERY HIDDEN AUTHOR Henry David Thoreau |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | ANAGRAMMED AUTHORS $1000: He's been called the "King of Pulp Fiction":
MY ALIEN PICKLES Mickey Spillane |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $400: Castle Rock, Maine King |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $800: Yoknapatawpha County Faulkner |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1200: Resting on the backs of four elephants atop a giant turtle, Discworld (Terry) Pratchett |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1600: A world of dragons & dragonriders, Pern (Anne) McCaffrey |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $9,400 (Daily Double): The town of Eastwick, Rhode Island John Updike |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This actor has published several novels, including "Truly Like Lightning" & "Miss Subways" Duchovny |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: An Eleanor Catton eco-thriller shares its name with this "Macbeth" place of prophecy that moves to Dunsinane Birnam Wood |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In 1945 Steinbeck took us to Monterey with this book whose title is now a street name Cannery Row |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Ray Carney from "Harlem Shuffle" by this novelist was back in his 2023 bestseller "Crook Manifesto" (Colson) Whitehead |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: He wrote, "'It is impossible that the ape, Kala, was your mother... you are pure man... the offspring of highly bred... parents' " Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $200: When he landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, J.D. Salinger is reported to have had 6 chapters of this work in his jacket The Catcher in the Rye |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: As a 2nd lieutenant in the czar's army, he saw the siege of Sevastopol & wrote about it in his "Sevastopol Sketches" Tolstoy |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $600: During World War II Frank Herbert served as a photographer in this U.S. Navy group that builds bases, airfields & bridges the Seabees |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1000: This author of "Going After Cacciato" was wounded by shrapnel from a grenade in Vietnam & received a Purple Heart Tim O'Brien |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1,800 (Daily Double): As a P.O.W., Kurt Vonnegut survived the 1945 Allied firebombing of this German city because he was working underground Dresden |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Her sister Emily & brother Branwell are buried with her in the family vault in Haworth, England; Anne is buried elsewhere Charlotte Brontë |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: A former chairman of CNN, he has written biographies of Steve Jobs & Elon Musk Isaacson |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This author born Lula Carson Smith earned fame at the keyboard as a novelist under this married name Carson McCullers |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: A dessert made from a family recipe is the title of this Charmaine Wilkerson novel that became a Hulu series in 2023 Black Cake |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Max Brod edited this author's letters & diaries & published a 1937 biography of him Kafka |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In 2023 this author of "Jazz" & "The Bluest Eye" was honored on a U.S. stamp, unveiled at Princeton, where she taught Morrison |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: She's the author of "The Kitchen God's Wife" & "The Bonesetter's Daughter" Amy Tan |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: Early in his career, this author of "The Corrections" earned extra money working in a seismology lab at Harvard Franzen |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: This alliterative author of Western novels wrote several Hopalong Cassidy books under the pen name Tex Burns Louis L'Amour |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: This 1895 graduate of the University of Nebraska was both managing editor of the school paper & literary editor of her yearbook Willa Cather |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: Victor Hugo urged the preservation of medieval architecture & his writing led to the restoration of this building from 1844 Notre Dame |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: In Switzerland, you can visit the schoolhouse of little Johanna Spyri, best known as the author of this novel Heidi |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: "Persuasion", the last book she completed before her death in 1817, was published posthumously Austen |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: Everyone "walked in his own individual way the road to dusty death" is a typical cheery line from him in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" Hardy |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $3,800 (Daily Double): The riverboat in Frontierland at Disneyland is named for him Mark Twain |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $400: In Dan Simmons' novel "Drood", Wilkie Collins meets the perplexing title character while traveling with this author in 1865 Charles Dickens |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $800: In Ellen Meister's "Dorothy Parker Drank Here", the plucky title scribe literally & wittily haunts the halls of this hotel the Algonquin |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $1200: Part of "Becoming George Sand" details her relationship with this equally brilliant composer Chopin |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $1,500 (Daily Double): "Vanessa and Her Sister" by Priya Parmar refers to Vanessa Bell & this literary sibling Virginia Woolf |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $2000: This Nobel-winning Mexican poet is a character in the meta-graphic novel "Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires" Octavio Paz |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $200: Born on the 4th of July, 1804 in Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne had a scarlet birthstone: this one ruby |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $400: L. Frank Baum was born in May, so this was his birthstone--might make a great name for a city emerald |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $600: Alice Hoffman, born March 16, 1952, wrote a novel about a mermaid called this, also the name of her watery blue birthstone Aquamarine |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $1,000 (Daily Double): Would Alice Walker have called her 1982 novel something else if her February birthstone wasn't the color purple, this one? amethyst |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $1000: If the author of "Push" had chosen her birthstone instead of this pseudonym, she would be Peridot Sapphire |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This author of "Charlotte's Web" also wrote a monthly column for Harper's called "One Man's Meat" (E.B.) White |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: The 11th & last short story in Annie Proulx' collection "Close Range" is titled this peak "Brokeback Mountain" |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This scribe who wrote "Mystic River" grew up in Dorchester. Massachusetts Dennis Lehane |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In this 1955 novel the title character impersonates Dickie Greenleaf The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: He was a newspaperman for the Chicago Daily Globe before penning "An American Tragedy" Dreiser |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $200: In 1836 she married theologian Calvin Stowe, who encouraged her writing, saying she "must be a literary woman" Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Childhood pal Harper Lee served as his researcher when he was working on "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $600: Before writing "The Hunger Games", she wrote for children's TV shows, including "Clarissa Explains It All" (Suzanne) Collins |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: Some say the phrase, "Keeping up with the Joneses" refers to the family of this upper-class author of "The House of Mirth" (Edith) Wharton (born Edith Jones) |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 19th century author of adventure novels suffered from tuberculosis & moved to the South Seas for his health, dying in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Marcus Clarke's "For the Term of His Natural Life" is partly set on this island, then called Van Diemen's Land Tasmania |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Patrick White's "The Eye of the Storm", about a matriarch & her children, has been called a Down Under version of this 1608 play King Lear |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: The title of a novel about settler/indigenous conflict is from a quote about "a secret river of" this in Australian history blood |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: This sweeping, multi-decade Colleen McCullough novel includes an ill-fated affair between a priest & a young woman The Thorn Birds |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: A group of Yanks & Aussies await the arrival of nuclear fallout from the Northern Hemisphere in this Nevil Shute novel On the Beach |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "I, Claudius" author Robert Graves expressed the disillusion of many in "Goodbye to All That", his memoir of this war World War I |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1986, the 50th anniversary of her bestseller, a stamp of her was released in a ceremony in Atlanta Margaret Mitchell |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Harry Bertram of Ellangowan is the actual hero of the 1815 "Waverley" tale "Guy Mannering" by this author Sir Walter Scott |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): To Ian McEwan, there is no redemption, no amends, no this, the title of his novel made into a 2007 movie with Saoirse Ronan Atonement |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novels "Show Boat", "Cimarron" & "Giant" were all turned into memorable Hollywood movies Edna Ferber |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $400: "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" was the first of more than 60 mysteries from her Christie |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $800: Seen here as a boy with his dog, he hit the shelves with 1900's "The Son of the Wolf" Jack London |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $1200: A synonym for a drug addict, it was the title of William S. Burroughs' semi-autobiographical first published work Junkie |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Her 1936 effort "We the Living" is a romantic tragedy set against the perils of Soviet-style totalitarianism Ayn Rand |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $2000: Subtitled "A Peep at Polynesian Life", this novel was Herman Melville's first peep at novel writing Typee |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In this novel, Holden Caulfield observes, "All morons hate it when you call them a moron" The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: A mouse named Mr. Jingles does some time in prison in this Stephen King book The Green Mile |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In books by Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's first name is short for this one from mythology Perseus |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Richard Parker is actually a 450-pound Bengal tiger in this novel by Yann Martel Life of Pi |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In "Night", his harrowing account of the Holocaust, he wrote, "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name" (Elie) Wiesel |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: At the start of this Hemingway book, Santiago hasn't caught a fish in a long time; it ends with his fish being eaten by sharks The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: 2 childhood friends wind up on opposite sides of the law in this author's 2022 legal thriller "The Boys from Biloxi" Grisham |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: A sequel to the original classic, 2009's "Dracula the Un-Dead" was co-written by this author's great-grandnephew Dacre (Bram) Stoker |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: 2022's "The Candy House" is a companion novel to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Visit from the Goon Squad" (Jennifer) Egan |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novel "Kindred" tells of Dana, a young Black woman who is transported from the 1970s back in time to the pre-Civil War South (Octavia E.) Butler |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: In "Hamnet", Maggie O'Farrell reimagines the life of this writer & his family, including his son, who may have died of bubonic plague William Shakespeare |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up in this Canadian province where she set her "Anne of Green Gables" books Prince Edward Island |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): After the success of this classic about Francie Nolan & her impoverished New York family, Betty Smith co-wrote a musical based on it A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: Mary Anne Evans was the real name of this "Middlemarch" author (George) Eliot |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: She recently took the 3 top spots on the paperback trade fiction list with "It Ends with Us", "It Starts with Us" & "Heart Bones" Colleen Hoover |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $200: Before "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen's first novel paired these 2 title qualities sense & sensibility |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $400: His work at a V.A. hospital led to his first novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ken Kesey |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $600: Born in Nantes in 1828, he had a hit with his first "scientific fiction" novel, "Five Weeks in a Balloon" Jules Verne |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $800: He was accused of obscenity after the release of "Madame Bovary", his first full-length novel Flaubert |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $1000: This first novel from James Joyce sounds like it could be a painting of him from when he was a wee lad A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: In his youth he was a chocolate tester for Cadbury, which no doubt inspired his "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Dahl |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: This author who set many of his novels in Wessex also had a terrier named Wessex Thomas Hardy |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1600: Gilbert Keith were the given names of this author famous for his Father Brown detective stories Chesterton |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: He's the bestselling author of "Utopia Avenue" & "Cloud Atlas" Mitchell |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $8,600 (Daily Double): First & last name of the lesser-known sibling who wrote the semi-autobiographical "Agnes Grey" Anne Bronte |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | AUTHORS $400: This founder of McSweeney's also gave us "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" (it was) Eggers |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | AUTHORS $800: This neurologist wrote about some of his more interesting cases in "Awakenings" & "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" Sacks |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | AUTHORS $1200: He was not so thrilled when his novel "The Corrections" was selected for Oprah's Book Club Franzen |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | AUTHORS $1600: 1993's "Pigs in Heaven" is a sequel to her first novel, "The Bean Trees" Kingsolver |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | AUTHORS $2000: Terrorists take hostages at a party in the South America-set novel "Bel Canto" by this woman Patchett |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $200: The Seattle Times declared 1996's "The Runaway Jury" by this man to be his "most addictive courtroom thriller" Grisham |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $400: "A milestone in the chronicling of the black experience", wrote Publishers Weekly about this author's "Beloved" Morrison |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $600: The Detroit Free Press said "The Mummy" was "vintage" this novelist; "elegantly erotic & full of enchanting terror" Anne Rice |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $800: The New York Times said she created "an indelible portrait of loss & grief" after the passing of her husband John Gregory Dunne Didion |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $1000: Can you pass the test? Entertainment Weekly called her comic "Fun Home" witty & mordant (morbid might be more fitting) Bechdel |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: She published her early novels like "The Bluest Eye" & "Sula" while working as an editor at Random House Toni Morrison |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: In 2016, this beloved author of the "Fudge" books & her husband George opened a nonprofit bookstore in Key West, Florida Judy Blume |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Though he would continue to write nonfiction & essays, "Sophie's Choice" was his last novel William Styron |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: A story of love & racial injustice, his 1974 novel "If Beale Street Could Talk" was turned into a 2018 film Baldwin |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1896, this author was named for his distant cousin who penned the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $400: Working at a publishing house, T.S. Eliot wrote George Orwell a letter rejecting this novel but did praise the pigs Animal Farm |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $800: This 1931 classic was rejected because Americans were "not interested in anything on China" The Good Earth |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $1200: This title auntie of Patrick Dennis' novel was too irrepressible for more than a dozen publishers before it came out in 1955 Mame |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $1600: One publisher thought no one would be interested in this man's "Kon-Tiki" because no one drowned Thor Heyerdahl |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $2000: One of this author's Navajo mysteries was rejected by an agent who said, "Get rid of all that Indian stuff" Tony Hillerman |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $400: Showing the Irish warts & all, J.M. Synge's play "The Playboy of the Western World" caused riots in this capital in 1907 Dublin |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $800: George Bernard Shaw won an Oscar for adapting this play of his featuring Professor Higgins & Eliza Pygmalion |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $1200: It's a historic Irish coronation site, the O'Hara home in American lit, & the title "Road" where Maeve Binchy set a novel Tara |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $1600: This 3-named Irish author was a goner for actress Maud Gonne, who starred in his play "Cathleen ni Houlihan" (William Butler) Yeats |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $2000: Born in Ireland in 1667, he wrote political pamphlets as well as satires Swift |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: This American poet wrote, "O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done" (Walt) Whitman |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $800: This German author published "Steppenwolf" in 1927 & went on to win a Nobel Prize (Hermann) Hesse |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1200: This Irish author created Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Molly Bloom & Stephen Dedalus James Joyce |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1600: The Harlem Renaissance could "Count" on this poet known for "The Ballad of the Brown Girl" (Countee) Cullen |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $2000: She followed up "The Song of Achilles" with the equally mythological "Circe" (Madeline) Miller |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $400: A Buckeye by birth, R.L. Stine also attended this university where he edited the Sundial Ohio State |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $800: Growing up in an LDS family, it's not surprising that Stephenie Meyer attended this university in Provo BYU (Brigham Young) |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $1200: Nicholas Sparks provides scholarships to & internships at his alma mater, this school, home of the Fighting Irish Notre Dame |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $1600: He modeled Gravesend Academy in "A Prayer for Owen Meany" after his alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire John Irving |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $2000: This Pulitzer winner for "The Underground Railroad" has a degree from Harvard & received the 2018 Harvard Arts medal Colson Whitehead |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Bigamy, murder & insanity show up in Mary Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret", a huge bestseller in this proper 19th century era the Victorian Era |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: In Sue Grafton's alphabet mystery series, "G" is for this synonym of sleuth gumshoe |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: From the same year she completed her quartet about the undead, her novel "The Host" deals with aliens taking over human minds Stephenie Meyer |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: A collaboration & romance with Jules Sandeau had something to do with Aurore Dudevant choosing this pen name George Sand |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This native of Jackson, Mississippi wrote the novel "Delta Wedding" about a southern plantation family Eudora Welty |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | GLOOMY AUTHORS $200: "Everything is evil" wrote the 19th century poet Giacomo Leopardi, who exemplified this glass-half-empty -ism pessimism |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | GLOOMY AUTHORS $400: In Kuniko Tsurita's book of manga "The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud", it's this kind of cloud from a nuclear bomb a mushroom cloud |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | GLOOMY AUTHORS $600: Called "Roald the Rotten" by his own wife, he created memorable villains like Miss Trunchbull in "Matilda" (Roald) Dahl |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | GLOOMY AUTHORS $800: "The unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence" is part of the "Country" of this author; how's your day going? Lovecraft |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | GLOOMY AUTHORS $1000: His plays like "Waiting for Godot" explore the meaninglessness of life & even a Nobel Prize didn't make him happy Samuel Beckett |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: P.L. Travers is best remembered for her books about this magical nanny Mary Poppins |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: James Baldwin's semi-autobiographical first novel was called "Go Tell It on" this the Mountain |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In the novel of the same name, Alice Walker wrote, "I think it pisses God off if you walk by" this "in a field... and don't notice it" the color purple |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Esther Greenwood, who has a mental breakdown in "The Bell Jar", was largely based on this author herself Sylvia Plath |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: This Swedish author of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" & its sequels died before any of them were published Stieg Larsson |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: The law works in mysterious ways in "Sparring Partners", a 2022 collection of novellas by this king of legal thrillers Grisham |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Years before "The Color Purple", she published a volume of poetry called "Once", about her time in Africa & her 1960s activism (Alice) Walker |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: This Pulitzer Prize winner by Colson Whitehead begins, "The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no" The Underground Railroad |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Michelle Zauner writes about losing her Korean mother to cancer in her memoir "Crying in" this Asian grocery chain H Mart |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: A small-town girl becomes a Broadway star, not a nun, in this first novel by Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: He invented the word "manxome" to describe a character in "Jabberwocky" (Lewis) Carroll |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He did window displays for a toy store before writing & illustrating kids' classics like "Where the Wild Things Are" Sendak |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In "The Warmth of Other Suns", Isabel Wilkerson tells of the "Great" this, an Exodus of African Americans from the South to the North Migration |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Mitch McDeere joins the law practice of Bendini, Lambert & Locke in this thriller by John Grisham The Firm |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $3,400 (Daily Double): In "The Family Chao", author Lan Samantha Chang reimagined this Dostoyevsky classic using a Chinese-American family The Brothers Karamazov |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $400: On July 4, 1862 he picnicked with Alice Liddell & her sisters, so it could have been "Edith" or "Lorina in Wonderland" Charles Dodgson (or Lewis Carroll) |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $1200: Bell Hooks inspired her great-granddaughter Gloria, so Gloria took Bell's name professionally, making this change spelled her name in lowercase |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $1600: Asked whether she'd call "A Wrinkle in Time" science fiction or fantasy, this author suggested "science fantasy" Madeleine L'Engle |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $2000: This author of visionary sci-fi tales like "The Minority Report" could turn out 120 words a minute on a manual typewriter Philip K. Dick |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): A 1903 courthouse in this state is preserved as a museum because as a young girl, Harper Lee watched her dad argue cases there Alabama |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Though written first, Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" takes place 20 years after the events of this novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This Stephen King novel says, "I, Georgie, am Mr. Bob Gray, also known as Pennywise the dancing clown" It |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Marlow & Kurtz are characters in this Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Kya Clark is known as "The Marsh Girl" in this Delia Owens novel that spent over 2 years on the bestsellers list Where the Crawdads Sing |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Angie Thomas was still in college when she wrote a story that became this novel about a police shooting The Hate U Give |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In "The Story of" this man, his friends include Too-Too, an owl, Chee-Chee, a monkey, & Dab-Dab, a duck Doctor Dolittle |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In the title of Anita Loos' Jazz Age tale, "Gentlemen Prefer" these Blondes |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In "The Overstory", many of these are essentially characters, including a centuries-old one named Mimas trees |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In "Treasure Island ", this character signs on as the ship's cook, but his signature dish is piracy Long John Silver |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This 19th century American's first novel, "Fanshawe", is set at Harley College based on his alma mater, Bowdoin College (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $400: Julia Quinn is the author behind this steamy series of books that include "The Viscount Who Loved Me" & "To Sir Phillip, with Love" Bridgerton |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $800: Despite numerous surgeries, eye problems left this "Dubliners" author nearly blind Joyce |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $1200: In 2020 this author announced he was passing the Jack Reacher baton to his younger brother Andrew Lee Child |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $2000: Sharing his pen name with a Hemingway character, he wrote the "Wheel of Time" fantasy series (Robert) Jordan |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $5,000 (Daily Double): Best known for his detective stories, in his later years, he gave lectures on spiritualism & wrote a 2-volume history of it (Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Koko & Yum Yum are these pets in a series of detective novels by Lilian Jackson Braun cats |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In the book "New Hampshire" by Robert Frost, you'll read "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in" this ice |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: " Everything I Never Told You" is the debut novel by this author of "Little Fires Everywhere" Celeste Ng |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: This novelist's 1967 work "One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the story of the Buendía family Márquez |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: 2019's "The Water Dancer" is the first novel by this man better known for nonfiction Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $200: Beatrix Potter, known for 1902's "The Tale of" this long-eared fellow, was also a noted conservationist Peter Rabbit |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $600: This Zora was a Zeta--one of the first sorors of Zeta Phi Beta--when she attended Howard in the 1920s Zora Neale Hurston |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $800: In this long-awaited 2019 sequel, Margaret Atwood brings more news from Gilead The Testaments |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $1000: "Laura's Memories", an annual pageant in Mansfield, Missouri, celebrates this woman who wrote her books there Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): Joining Thalia & Urania, the ancient Greek poet Sappho was dubbed "the tenth" one of these goddesses the Muses |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $400: Ray Bradbury's favorite place in his boyhood home of Waukegan, Illinois was this building at 1 Sheridan Road the library |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $800: This author of fantasy novels & of "Mere Christianity" worshiped at Holy Trinity Church in Oxford & you can too (C.S.) Lewis |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $1600: Seen as a dangerous atheist, Voltaire bought a chateau near the border of these two countries so he could hop over the border as needed France & Switzerland |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $2000: Pay your respects to the bronze Gerald & Lawrence Durrell on this Greek island where they spent much of their youth Corfu |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $6,800 (Daily Double): The Globe Inn, with a vast selection of single malt scotches, was a hangout of this 18th century poet & can be yours (Robert) Burns |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Published in 2021, his first novel "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is based on his film (Quentin) Tarantino |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This author best remembered for writing about his own "Roots" also co-authored "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" Haley |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: She set her 1927 novel "To the Lighthouse" on the Isle of Skye Virginia Woolf |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: "The Wolf Gift", book 1 in her "Wolf Gift Chronicles", deals with the making of a werewolf, not a vampire Anne Rice |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Bill O'Reilly subtitled this 2012 alliterative bestseller "The End of Camelot" Killing Kennedy |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This feral character raised by jungle animals originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" Mowgli |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In a tale set in small-town Iowa, Peter Hedges asked, "What's eating" this guy Gilbert Grape |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This "Good Earth" author wrote a very personal account of her daughter Carol in "The Child Who Never Grew" Pearl S. Buck |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Winner of a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, Ibram X. Kendi authored "How to Be" this--you must confront inequities an Antiracist |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): The title group discusses "Emma" in Chapter One of this novel by Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $400: His "Life on the Mississippi" preceded "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by a year Twain |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $800: In 1981, when he'd only written a handful of novels, he published "Danse Macabre", an overview of the horror genre Stephen King |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $1200: In 1979 he completed his third revision of "The Elements of Style" (E.B.) White |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $1600: Before writing 1905's "The House of Mirth", she collaborated on "The Decoration of Houses", a book of interior designs Edith Wharton |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $2000: Best known for his novel "Infinite Jest", he also wrote "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity" David Foster Wallace |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: A bullfight aficionado, he wrote about the subject in "Death in the Afternoon" Hemingway |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Some ashes of this "Rabbit at Rest" author are at rest in Pennsylvania; some are in Massachusetts Updike |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: This 3-named author of "Them" & "We Were the Mulvaneys" is a professor of creative writing, emerita at Princeton Joyce Carol Oates |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: A personal friend of this president, Nathaniel Hawthorne was appointed U.S. consul at Liverpool in 1853 Franklin Pierce |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: He won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "Arrowsmith", but turned it down Sinclair Lewis |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: She modeled 3 of the sisters in "Little Women" on her own siblings & Jo March after herself Alcott |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Third time's the charm for this author who won a Pulitzer for her third novel, "The Goldfinch" Donna Tartt |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: She dedicated her first novel, "The Joy Luck Club", "To my mother and the memory of her mother" Amy Tan |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: This late author's sci-fi & fantasy classics include "The Left Hand of Darkness" & The Earthsea books Ursula Le Guin |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: At 14, this British author of "White Teeth" changed the first letter of her name from S to Z, thinking it sounded more exotic Zadie Smith |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The first U.S. case study of a Black urban community was made in this city by W.E.B. Du Bois working for Penn in the 1890s Philadelphia |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: James McBride got the title of this bestseller from his mother, whom he once asked, "What color is God's spirit?" The Color of Water |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: "The Rose that Grew from Concrete" is a book of poems by this man better known as a rapper Tupac Shakur |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: "While Justice Sleeps" is the first novel under her own name by this Georgia voting rights activist & romance novelist Stacey Abrams |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: After killing off this private detective in "Blonde Faith", Walter Mosley resurrected him in "Little Green" Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | AUTHORS OF TODAY $400: Mystery writer Caleb Carr is the son of Lucien Carr, who helped launch this movement by introducing Ginsberg to Kerouac the Beat |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | AUTHORS OF TODAY $800: Last name of Paul who wrote the novel "The Mosquito Coast" & his nephew, who starred in the 2021 TV adaptation Theroux |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | AUTHORS OF TODAY $1200: Ocean Vuong, author of "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous", got his name because the ocean touches the U.S. & this, his native country Vietnam |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | AUTHORS OF TODAY $1600: This New Yorker regular & bestselling author of "Talking to Strangers" co-hosts the "Revisionist History" podcast Malcolm Gladwell |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | AUTHORS OF TODAY $2000: He covers people who create change with fresh thinking: about baseball in "Moneyball"; about medicine in 2021's "The Premonition" Michael Lewis |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: As a child Johanna Spyri spent time in Graubunden in this country, a setting she would later use in "Heidi" Switzerland |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This Margery Williams tale about a fuzzy herbivore has enchanted readers since 1922 The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: This Susanna Kaysen memoir about her time in a mental hospital was made into a film starring Winona Ryder & Angelina Jolie Girl, Interrupted |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: To write, a woman needs "money and a room of her own", declared this 20th century author (Virginia) Woolf |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: The initials in the name of this Booker Prize winner for "Possession" stand for Antonia Susan Byatt |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: An H. Rider Haggard novel from 1885 saw Allan Quatermain looking for this king's mines Solomon |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Anthony Bourdain wrote a 2001 book about this New York woman who was very infectious in the kitchen in the early 1900s Typhoid Mary |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In "Gub Gub's Book", by the creator of Dr. Dolittle, this type of animal tells of truffles & more pig |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): "War & Peace" opens in this year, 7 years before a fateful invasion 1805 |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Outside the Ansonia, Connecticut Public Library, a memorial fountain & horse trough honors this "Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $400: After being a train-riding teen hobo, Jack London went to Cal-Berkeley but soon dropped out to search for this in the Klondike gold |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $800: Ordained in 1695, Jonathan Swift spent 30 years as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in this city Dublin |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $1200: During World War II this American was with the 4th Infantry Division in Europe before going home to Cuba Hemingway |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $1600: As a student at Stanford in 1959, he was part of an army experiment on mind-altering drugs & later, worked in a hospital psych ward (Ken) Kesey |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $6,000 (Daily Double): She studied medicine at Johns Hopkins before moving to Paris in 1903 & drove an ambulance for the French in World War I (Gertrude) Stein |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Rachel Chu heads to Singapore with her ultra-wealthy boyfriend in this 2013 novel by Kevin Kwan Crazy Rich Asians |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This "miserable" guy says, "I was a convict. I have spent nineteen years in prison" Jean Valjean |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: The Richardson family's house is a victim of arson in this bestseller by Celeste Ng, adapted as a Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Zadie Smith's "On Beauty" is modeled on this author's "Howards End" Forster |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Christopher Isherwood is known for stories based on life in this European city in the 1930s; here's how he looked in that decade Berlin |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $400: In the 18th century he wrote numerous novellas including "Zadig" & "Candide" Voltaire |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $800: German poet Novalis pioneered this passionate literary movement & died young of TB in 1801 Romanticism |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: Captain Haddock is the companion & Snowy is the dog of this teenage journalist created by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé Tintin |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1600: "Frogs" & "Wealth" are one-word titles from this one-name master of ancient Greek comedy Aristophanes |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: In "The Red & the Black" by this French author, a young man must choose between life in the army & life in the church Stendhal |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $800: In this third John Grisham thriller, 2 Supreme Court justices are killed & a journalist helps a law student on the run The Pelican Brief |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $1200: The title refers to a high-flying rocket in this third Ian Fleming James Bond novel Moonraker |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $1600: Marine officer & disciplinarian dad Bull Meecham in this third book by Pat Conroy calls himself this, the novel's title The Great Santini |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $2000: Set in 18th century Italy, Anne Rice's "Cry to Heaven" is about 2 of these male sopranos, adored as singers, yet shunned as men castrati |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Atticus Finch in this novel was inspired by the author's father, who was also an attorney To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This Holocaust survivor & author of "Night" also wrote "Dawn", which takes place at night (Elie) Wiesel |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Translated into French in 1936, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" influenced this man's spare prose in "The Stranger" (Albert) Camus |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lucy in this Forster novel: "Charlotte, you mustn't spoil me: of course, you must look over the Arno, too" A Room with a View |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Characters in this novel include Chance the gardener & the President of the United States Being There |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $400: Langston Hughes attended this New York City Ivy League school & discovered Harlem, where he would help lead a renaissance Columbia (University) |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $800: As a young man, he wrote action novels under the name John Lange, but would go on to write of re-created dinosaurs Michael Crichton |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $1200: This Polish author who wrote in English lived in exile in Russia as a child & went to sea as a teenager Joseph Conrad |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $1600: At 16, she was a teacher; by 19 she was married & a mother; she only began publishing books about prairie family life at age 65 Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $3,000 (Daily Double): Born Chloe Wofford, she converted to Catholicism at age 12 & added the name Anthony to hers, from St. Anthony of Padua Toni Morrison |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | GERMAN AUTHORS $400: From 1782 until his death in 1832, this "Faust" author lived & worked in the grand Weimar residence seen here Goethe |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | GERMAN AUTHORS $800: He made his last public appearance in March 2015 at the premiere of a German stage production of his "The Tin Drum" Grass |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | GERMAN AUTHORS $1200: Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen lived through this 1618-1648 war & wrote about it in "Simplicissimus" the Thirty Years' War |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | GERMAN AUTHORS $1600: In the 1930s the Nazis burned the books of this "All Quiet on the Western Front" author & took away his citizenship (Erich Maria) Remarque |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | GERMAN AUTHORS $2000: Hermann Hesse's last novel, "Das Glasperlenspiel" translates to this title in English The Glass Bead Game |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: "The Last Olympian" is the last of the 5 books in his original Percy Jackson series Rick Riordan |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $800: Tom Wolfe wrote of the adventures of this author & the Merry Pranksters in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" Ken Kesey |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1200: He wrote the book "The Third Man" as "raw material" for the screenplay; it was published after the film came out Graham Greene |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1600: She was in Antarctica when she received word that she had won the 1994 Newbery Medal for "The Giver" Lois Lowry |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $2000: James Jones is best remembered for this novel set in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbor From Here to Eternity |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES $400: When she wrote "Outlander", Diana Gabaldon hadn't been to this U.K. country, the book's main setting Scotland |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES $800: This creator of Tarzan never set foot in Africa (Edgar Rice) Burroughs |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES $1600: This author from Prague never visited the U.S. & it shows when the Statue of Liberty holds aloft a sword on page 1 of his novel "Amerika" (Franz) Kafka |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES $2,000 (Daily Double): Bram Stoker consulted the 1865 book this region: "Its Products and Its People" to write about a place he never went Transylvania |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES $2000: "The Lost City of Z" is about South America explorer Percy Fawcett, who helped Arthur Conan Doyle WFH this "Lost" book The Lost World |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | FEMALE AUTHORS & SOME MALE ONES, TOO $400: In this novel George Orwell wrote, "We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it" 1984 |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | FEMALE AUTHORS & SOME MALE ONES, TOO $800: Elizabeth Wurtzel detailed her clinical depression in her memoir called this "Nation" Prozac |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | FEMALE AUTHORS & SOME MALE ONES, TOO $1200: Joseph Wambaugh is best known for writing about this profession in which he served in L.A. for 14 years a police officer |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | FEMALE AUTHORS & SOME MALE ONES, TOO $1600: A documentary called this woman "and Still I Rise" detailed her life as a memoirist, actress & poet Maya Angelou |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | FEMALE AUTHORS & SOME MALE ONES, TOO $2000: The husband of this French author also wrote under one name, Willy Colette |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $800: Stella Gibbons parodied the rural gloom of Thomas Hardy in her best-loved book, "Cold Comfort" this place Farm |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $1200: A quarter century after "Lord of the Flies", this man won the Booker Prize for "Rites of Passage" (William) Golding |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $1600: In 2019 Czechia gave this "Unbearable Lightness of Being" author his citizenship back after 40 years Milan Kundera |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Charles Dickens asked to be buried quietly in Kent, but he ended up in this section of Westminster Abbey Poets' Corner |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $2000: This Brazilian author of "The Alchemist" deleted a children's book he was writing with Kobe Bryant after Kobe's tragic death (Paulo) Coelho |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $400: This creator of Don Quixote fought at the 1571 Battle of Lepanto, receiving a wound that maimed his left hand for life Cervantes |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $800: C.S. Lewis fought in this war, arriving at the front lines in the Somme Valley on his 19th birthday World War I |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $1200: This reclusive author of "Franny and Zooey" hit Utah Beach with the U.S. Army Salinger |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $1600: This 18th century historian served as a captain in the Hampshire militia & wrote "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" Gibbon |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $2000: Ian Fleming served in British naval intelligence after an undistinguished stint in this U.K. military academy Sandhurst |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $400: At age 64, before her "Little House" books, she traveled in a 1923 Buick named Isabelle from Missouri to her old Dakota home Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $800: A bestseller ensued when Robert M. Pirsig used this transport for a 1968 journey with his son, doing his own maintenance a motorcycle |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $1600: A 2019 book tells the true tale of a 1927 road trip by this woman & Langston Hughes, including a Bessie Smith show in Macon Zora Neale Hurston |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $2000: Mark Twain's trip from Missouri to Nevada included being "avalanched" inside a stagecoach --no wonder he called the book this Roughing It |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $3,000 (Daily Double): One of the most famous road trips in American lit began in 1947 when he rode the bus with crying babies from New York to Chicago Jack Kerouac |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $400: This 19th century New England thinker penned the "Concord Hymn" & the essay "Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $800: In the 1830s, before she was a bestselling author, she lived in Cincinnati, across from a slave-holding community Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: His poems like "Kubla Khan" are celebrated for their lyricism Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: This Yentl creator's "Shadows on the Hudson" is about Jewish refugees in the aftermath of World War II Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $5,000 (Daily Double): Simon & Schuster sponsors an award for suspense fiction named for this female author of "A Stranger is Watching" Mary Higgins Clark |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AUTHORS $200: Toni Morrison wrote her play "Desdemona" as a response to a production of this Shakespeare play Othello |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AUTHORS $400: This British author was married to a woman also named Evelyn--they were called He-Evelyn & She-Evelyn by friends Waugh |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AUTHORS $600: In 2020 this author of "Dear John" returned to familiar territory (love in North Carolina) with "The Return" Nicholas Sparks |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AUTHORS $800: Finally out in 2020, this feminist's "The Inseparables" was not published in part because Jean-Paul Sartre didn't like it Simone de Beauvoir |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AUTHORS $1000: He began "Dombey and Son" during a trip to Switzerland in 1846 Charles Dickens |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $200: This "Where the Wild Things Are" author had a "tame thing", a German shepherd named Herman (Maurice) Sendak |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $400: Flannery O'Connor kept these vibrant birds & sent their ornate tail feathers as gifts a peacock |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $600: Wallace Stegner, founder of this university's creative writing program is seen with Suzie in Los Altos Hills, near Palo Alto Stanford |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $800: Muriel the goat in this novel was probably inspired by George Orwell's own pet goat Muriel Animal Farm |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $1,000 (Daily Double): Of this author's dogs, Charley was a good boy, & Toby, who ate the first draft for "Of Mice & Men", was definitely a bad boy John Steinbeck |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $400: Studying French & classics, she graduated from England's University of Exeter, not Hogwarts, in 1987 J.K. Rowling |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $800: Before becoming an author, Sue Monk Kidd worked as a nurse, getting her degree from this school, TCU for short Texas Christian University |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $1600: It's no science fiction that in 1948 this prolific Russian-born author received a Ph.D in chemistry from Columbia University Isaac Asimov |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $2000: He was a theatre major at Wesleyan University in Connecticut before giving birth to the Jason Bourne novels Robert Ludlum |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $4,000 (Daily Double): One of his professors at Cornell was William Strunk Jr. whose "Elements of Style" he would later revise (E.B.) White |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: "Thin Man" author Samuel Hammett Dashiell |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Novelist Edna Proulx Annie |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Western scribe Pearl Grey Zane |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Pulitzer winner Arch Whitehead Colson |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: The dramatic Johan Strindberg August |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | AUTHORS $400: Virginia Woolf created Judith, this playwright's equally gifted sister, rejected by the London stage for being a woman Shakespeare |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | AUTHORS $800: Charles Dickens may have based Uriah Heep on this Danish author, who left a bad impression when he visited Dickens Hans Christian Andersen |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | AUTHORS $1200: In 2020 HBO took us to the "Country" named for this author, as Black travelers face vile monsters like those in his fiction (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | AUTHORS $1600: In addition to satirical works, this one-named French enlightenment writer penned the 1723 epic poem "La Henriade" Voltaire |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | AUTHORS $2000: In his "Devil's Dictionary" he said mayonnaise serves "the French in place of a state religion" (Ambrose) Bierce |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Edna Ferber's novel titled this boat, a floating theater, became a musical featuring "Ol' Man River" Show Boat |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Smitten with the title character, a Polish refugee, Stingo narrates this William Styron novel Sophie's Choice |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Raised in the Abnegation faction, Tris Prior makes a fateful choice in this dystopian series Divergent |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In 1917 this muckraker described coal mine conditions in "King Coal"; 10 years later, he dove into "Oil!" (Upton) Sinclair |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): His breakthrough bestseller was "All the Pretty Horses", a story of Texas cowboys in Mexico (Cormac) McCarthy |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In 2020 Stephenie Meyer returned to her "Twilight" characters with "Midnight Sun", told from this vampire's vantage Edward |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: The nonfiction "Hidden Valley Road" tells of a family with 12 kids, 6 of whom were diagnosed with this "split mind" disorder schizophrenia |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Connell & Marianne attend Trinity College in this world capital in Sally Rooney's "Normal People" Dublin |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: "Stories From a South African Childhood" is the subtitle of this memoir by Trevor Noah Born a Crime |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This woman wrote the Holocaust-set children's book "Number the Stars" Lois Lowry |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | AUTHORS' HOMES $400: In person or online, you can tour his Hartford home where he wrote "Huckleberry Finn" Mark Twain |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | AUTHORS' HOMES $800: He lived & wrote works like "To Have and Have Not" in the Key West home seen here Hemingway |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | AUTHORS' HOMES $1600: In 1842, he & his new bride moved into the old manse in Concord, Massachusetts, hence his "Mosses from an Old Manse" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | AUTHORS' HOMES $2000: In 1972 his daughter Jill sold Rowan Oak, the family home in Oxford, to the University of Mississippi Faulkner |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | AUTHORS' HOMES $3,000 (Daily Double): In the 1870s she & her family lived in a little dugout house near Walnut Grove, Minnesota on the banks of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: Not about zombies, the short story "The Dead" is found in this Irish author's collection "Dubliners" James Joyce |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1200: In Sept. 2018 this Singapore-born man had 3 books in the top 5 on the New York Times fiction bestseller list Kevin Kwan |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1600: He's taken us on "A Walk in the Woods" & given us "A Short History of Nearly Everything" Bill Bryson |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $2000: This "verdant" author's "The Heart of the Matter" was set in Sierra Leone, where he was once stationed in World War II Graham Greene |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $7,000 (Daily Double): One of his most famous characters, Harry Haller, has the same initials as the author Hermann Hesse |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $400: Describing a book he was writing in 1881: "it's all about a map, and a treasure, and a mutiny, and a derelict ship" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $800: This author to Marlon Brando: "Dear Marlon, I'm praying that you'll buy 'On the Road' and make a movie of it" Kerouac |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $1200: He wrote Orwell both praising & criticizing "1984" & made reference to his own "Brave New World" (Aldous) Huxley |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $1600: His "The Innocents Abroad" was based on letters he wrote to newspapers as a traveling correspondent Mark Twain |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $2000: She wrote to husband Leonard before taking her life: "I feel certain that I am going mad again" Virginia Woolf |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Here's an image from the cover of this royal fable The Little Prince |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Based on true events, recent stories of the holocaust include "The Librarian of" & "The Tattooist of" this notorious place Auschwitz |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Kya Clark, known as the "Marsh Girl", is suspected of murder in Delia Owens' No. 1 bestseller "Where" these "Sing" the Crawdads |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Truman Capote said he introduced the nonfiction novel with this bestseller about the brutal murder of a Kansas farm family In Cold Blood |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In a novel by Jonathan Franzen, Alfred Lambert & his son Chip face their failures to make these, the title of the book corrections |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: This author of "The Good Earth" also wrote the heartwarming "Christmas Day in the Morning" Pearl Buck |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: She worked at a coffee shop in Toronto before writing dystopian fare (Margaret) Atwood |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: In 1856 she published "Dred", in which she depicted the deterioration of a slave-holding society Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: "The House on Mango Street" is the first book of fiction by this Mexican-American woman (Sandra) Cisneros |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This Danish writer acquired her title by marrying her cousin Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a Swedish baron Isak Dinesen |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $200: He left office in January 1981 & released "Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President" in 1982 Jimmy Carter |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $400: "Earth in the Balance" by this man was published in 1992, the same year he was elected vice president (Al) Gore |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $600: He's the author of "Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games"--the 2002 Salt Lake City games specifically Mitt Romney |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $800: His "The War on Normal People" explains why universal basic income is our future (Andrew) Yang |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $1000: This Republican ex-Speaker of the House co-wrote the alternate history novel "1945", published in 1995 Gingrich |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: Sick of this character who talks to animals, Hugh Lofting tried to end the series with him "in the Moon"; didn't work Doctor Dolittle |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: Norman Mailer's "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" reports on these events that happened in those cities in 1968 national conventions (Democratic and Republican) |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1200: Chronicler of Broadway life Alfred Runyon went by this middle name; it has more of a ring to it Damon |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1600: Known primarily for his crime novels, he started out writing western tales like "Hombre" & "3:10 to Yuma" Elmore Leonard |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $2000: John Fowles interrupts himself in this novel he wrote, commenting on the lives of the 1867 lovers at the heart of the action The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: He wrote his first novel "A Time to Kill" while putting in 60 to 70 hours a week at a Mississippi law firm Grisham |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Here's this author in 1935, hard at work on "Gone With the Wind" (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: This novelist of the frontier died in 1851 in a village his dad founded, the future home of the Baseball Hall of Fame (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: Author-run bookstores include Ann Patchett's Parnassus Books in Nashville & his Booked Up Inc. in Archer City, Texas Larry McMurtry |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: William Kennedy was born in this state capital & set a trilogy there, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Ironweed" Albany |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $400: A portrait of James Joyce as a young man included opening this city's first movie theater, the Volta Dublin |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $2000: Early jobs for this "Hitchhiker's Guide" author include bodyguard, chicken shed cleaner & script editor for "Doctor Who" (Douglas) Adams |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $2,600 (Daily Double): Like Doc Holliday, Zane Grey was trained as one of these professionals a dentist |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $200: In 2006 a British high court ruled this author was not guilty of plagiarism in "The Da Vinci Code" (Dan) Brown |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $400: In the TV movie "A Burning Passion", Shannen Doherty portrayed this gone-too-soon author of "Gone with the Wind" Margaret Mitchell |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $600: We wonder if he spent 10,000 hours writing "Talking to Strangers", a 2019 bestseller & his first book in 6 years Malcolm Gladwell |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $1000: As well as penning "Black Panther" comics for Marvel, this African-Amer. writer topped the bestseller list with "The Water Dancer" (Ta-Nehisi) Coates |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $2,200 (Daily Double): Not only was she talented enough to somehow write another person's autobiography, she gave us "Three Lives" in 1909 Gertrude Stein |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: In 1988 she scored her first No. 1 bestseller with "Queen of the Damned", the third novel in her Vampire Chronicles Anne Rice |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Anna Deavere Smith's play "Fires in the Mirror" looks at the 1991 riots in the Crown Heights neighborhood of this NYC borough Brooklyn |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: The Hudson series is a sequence of novels by this "Flowers in the Attic" author V.C. Andrews |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $400: Joanne is her first name; she has no middle name but Kathleen was added for literary purposes in honor of her grandmother J.K. Rowling |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $800: Perhaps in an act of "Civil Disobedience", this transcendentalist reversed the order of his first & middle names Thoreau |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $1200: This author who grew up in Oxford, Mississippi added the letter "U" to his last name Faulkner |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $1600: Marguerite Johnson was a singer when she took this stage name & used it when she wrote poems like "Still I Rise" Maya Angelou |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $2000: New Yorker Nathan Weinstein fittingly changed his name to this & eventually moved out to Hollywood Nathanael West |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Before her death, Sue Grafton had planned to write a final alphabet mystery, counting down to "Z is for" this Zero |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: A TV writer & producer, Maria Semple more recently wrote the bestseller "Where'd You Go" her Bernadette |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This British author of a famous dystopian novel was the grandson of a prominent biologist & the brother of 2 more biologists Huxley |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | ITALIAN AUTHORS $400: "Divino Poeta" was a title given to this 14th century Italian writer Dante |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | ITALIAN AUTHORS $800: Giovanni Verga turned his own story "Cavalleria rusticana" into a play & it was famously turned into this in 1890 an opera |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | ITALIAN AUTHORS $1200: "It is safer to be feared than loved", opines Machiavelli in "The Prince", dedicated to this man (Lorenzo de') Medici |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | ITALIAN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter one of this Umberto Eco novel begins as a sphere "swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty" Foucault's Pendulum |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | ITALIAN AUTHORS $2000: With works like 1877's "Studies of Women", Luigi Capuana was a leader of this movement, Italian for "realism" verismo |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | OCCUPATIONALLY NAMED AUTHORS $400: This "grinder of grain" wrote some good plays & the screenplay for "The Misfits" (Arthur) Miller |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | OCCUPATIONALLY NAMED AUTHORS $1200: "Plant tender" who was trained as a lawyer & created a famous one (Erle Stanley) Gardner |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | OCCUPATIONALLY NAMED AUTHORS $1600: This "luggage carrier" wrote "Pollyanna", about an excessively cheerful young girl who's now a cliche (Eleanor) Porter |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | OCCUPATIONALLY NAMED AUTHORS $2000: "The Way of All Flesh" is an autobiographical work by this "house servant" (Samuel) Butler |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | OCCUPATIONALLY NAMED AUTHORS $4,000 (Daily Double): Mrs, Tittlemouse, Tom Kitten & many other animal characters were created by this "artisan" (Beatrix) Potter |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | STATUESQUE AUTHORS $400: That's not such an ugly duckling beside the statue of this Dane in Central Park Hans Christian Andersen |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | STATUESQUE AUTHORS $800: Never mind the "Nevermore",he's been in Baltimore since 1921 (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | STATUESQUE AUTHORS $1200: As you might expect, this author's statue is relaxing at the bar in the El Floridita in Havana Hemingway |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | STATUESQUE AUTHORS $2000: The statue of this Victorian author, born Mary Ann Evans, is in Warwickshire, where she set many of her novels George Eliot |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | STATUESQUE AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Much of her 6th century B.C. poetry is lost, but her reputation as a female writing pioneer remains Sappho |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $200: Narnia (C.S.) Lewis |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $400: The Hundred Acre Wood (A.A.) Milne |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $600: Loompaland (Roald) Dahl |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $800: Panem (Suzanne) Collins |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1000: Lake Wobegon (Garrison) Keillor |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: This "little woman" was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1832 & died in Boston in 1888 (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Dublin born in 1882, he died in Zurich in 1941 (James) Joyce |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1200: "Go Tell It On The Mountain" that he was born in New York in 1924 & said adieu in France in 1987 James Baldwin |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1600: His story began in Salem, Mass. in 1804 & ended 60 years later during a trip to New Hampshire with Franklin Pierce Hawthorne |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $4,400 (Daily Double): The "Winds of War" carried this author from his birth in the Bronx to his death in Palm Springs, California in 2019 at age 103 Herman Wouk |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress", a search for a missing woman in this West Coast city reveals scandalous secrets Los Angeles |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison & Ta-Nehisi Coates all attended this university in Washington, D.C. Howard |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: In the "African Immortals" series by Tananarive Due, vampire-like beings from this Horn of Africa country prey on the living Ethiopia |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: His plays "The Piano Lesson" & "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" are both set in Pittsburgh August Wilson |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: 1938's "Uncle Tom's Children" was the first book by this "Native Son" author (Richard) Wright |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $400: E.B.'s flying toys White's kites |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $800: Gertrude's salty pickling solutions Stein's brines |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $1200: Ms. Cather's country estates Willa's villas |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $1600: Late novelist Doris' benedictions Lessing's blessings |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $2000: "Herzog" author's stringed instruments Bellow's cellos |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Most of the known works of this ancient Greek poet are fragments; her 28-line "Ode to Aphrodite" is an exception Sappho |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: How about those Gilbert sisters--memoirist Elizabeth & this author of kids' books like "Heaven is Paved with Oreos" Catherine Murdock |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: She lived on public assistance between jobs as a French teacher, then wrote about a boy wizard, conjuring millions J.K. Rowling |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Barack Obama's favorite book of 2018 was this memoir by a former first lady Becoming |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Delia Owens used the marshes of North Carolina as the setting for her bestseller "Where" these, aka crayfish, "Sing" crawdads |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: In 1925 she published "Mrs. Dalloway" &, to explain what she was doing, the critical work "Modern Fiction" Virginia Woolf |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $4,000 (Daily Double): Born in Paris in 1804, she's known for her novels, her lovers & writing under a masculine name George Sand |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: Joan Didion has a book of essays called this, also the nickname for The Beatles' 1968 double LP The White Album |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Some have called "Villette", not "Jane Eyre", her finest novel Charlotte Brontë |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: Her "Gone Girl" was turned into a movie & her debut novel "Sharp Objects" was turned into a 2018 limited series on HBO Gillian Flynn |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: The films "Strangers on a Train" & "The Talented Mr. Ripley" were based on novels by her Patricia Highsmith |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: Before her death at age 56, she wrote several bestsellers, including "Valley of the Dolls" (Jacqueline) Susann |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: He said he made "a naked stab at commercial fiction" with his second novel, "The Firm", & boy, did he succeed (John) Grisham |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Here's a portrait of this author during her own age of innocence (Edith) Wharton |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: She read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's first inauguration (Maya) Angelou |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: "Arrowsmith" & "Elmer Gantry" are books by this man (Sinclair) Lewis |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): He wrote 1899's "Father Goose"; he came up with a "Wonderful" adventure the following year L. Frank Baum |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $200: In 1855 he published an autobiography, "The Fairy Tale of My Life" (Hans Christian) Andersen |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Bill Clinton teamed with this man who's sold 350 mil. books to write the 2018 thriller "The President is Missing" (James) Patterson |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $600: This South Carolinian was the oldest son of an authoritarian Marine he depicted in "The Great Santini" (Pat) Conroy |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Hunter S. Thompson didn't coin this word; editor Bill Cardoso did, to describe Hunter's style of journalism gonzo |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: Featured in several novels, a writer named Nathan Zuckerman was this author's fictional alter ego Philip Roth |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways", begins the 43rd of her "Sonnets from the Portuguese" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: She was only 18 years old when she began writing "Frankenstein" Mary Shelley |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: The 1994 Newbery Medal went to "The Giver" by this alliterative woman (Lois) Lowry |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: Astrid Lindgren created this redheaded girl with an odd fashion sense Pippi Longstocking |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Rainbow Rowell writes about first love in the novel "Eleanor &" him Eleanor & Park |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $200: Born in Connecticut in 1811, she went to that "cabin" in the sky July 1, 1896 (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $400: Born in "a little house in the big woods" of Wisconsin in 1867, died in Missouri in 1957 (Laura Ingalls) Wilder |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $600: Born in Denmark in 1885, she went into Africa in 1914 & out of this world Sept. 7, 1962 (Isak) Dinesen |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $800: Born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871, wrote naturally & died Dec. 28, 1945, "An American Tragedy" (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $1000: Born in Chicago in 1888, made "The Long Goodbye" & went to "The Big Sleep" on March 26, 1959 Raymond Chandler |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $400: Who-ville (Dr.) Seuss |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $800: Westeros & Valyria George R.R. Martin |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1600: Never-Never Land J.M. Barrie |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $2,000 (Daily Double): In the South, Maycomb & Finch's Landing Harper Lee |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $2000: Gopher Prairie, Minnesota Sinclair Lewis |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | AUTHORS' SECOND NOVELS $400: John Grisham followed "A Time to Kill" with this novel about a Harvard Law grad joining a shady Southern practice The Firm |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | AUTHORS' SECOND NOVELS $800: Knowing a good thing when he'd found it, Daniel Defoe penned "The Further Adventures of" this guy Robinson Crusoe |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | AUTHORS' SECOND NOVELS $1200: In "Midnight's Children", No. 2 by Salman Rushdie, Saleem is born Aug. 15, 1947 in this country on its independence day India |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | AUTHORS' SECOND NOVELS $1600: 2006's "New Moon", second in a 4-book series, was the sequel to this debut Twilight |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | AUTHORS' SECOND NOVELS $2000: His second novel, "The Beautiful and Damned", was published in 1922 & deals with a rich & glamorous couple Fitzgerald |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Chimamanda Adichie had a 2014 bestseller with "We Should All Be" these, believers in women's equality feminists |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $800: 15 years after "Push", this gem of a writer gives voice to Precious' son in "The Kid" Sapphire |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Maryse Condé wrote the historical novel "I, Tituba, Black Witch of" this New England town Salem |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This British author of "White Teeth" also wrote "Swing Time", a story of 2 childhood friends who dream of being dancers Zadie Smith |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This "Their Eyes Were Watching God" author wrote "Tell My Horse" after living in Haiti Zora Neale Hurston |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In 2015 she published "It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!" Chelsea Clinton |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: At age 33 Mary Wollstonecraft published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"; at 21 this daughter published a classic Mary Shelley |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Here's an 1870s photo of this French author looking pretty miserable Victor Hugo |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: He followed up "Between the World and Me" with "We Were Eight Years in Power" Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): His crime: joining the Petrashevsky circle; his punishment: many months in prison in 1849, ending with a mock execution Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | CONFUSING AUTHORS $400: Arthur Hailey wrote "Hotel" & "Detective"; this similarly named author wrote "Roots" & "Queen" Alex Haley |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | CONFUSING AUTHORS $800: (Kelly shows two writers on the monitor.) You might have confused playwright Arthur Miller & novelist Henry Miller on a walking tour--they had homes 500 feet apart in New York City's first commuter suburb, the heights of this borough Brooklyn |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | CONFUSING AUTHORS $1200: Subtract an "I" from the last name of the author of "Prime Witness" & you get this comedian & author of "Shopgirl" (Steve) Martin |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | CONFUSING AUTHORS $1600: William Burroughs created the Mugwumps of "Naked Lunch"; this other Burroughs created the Banths of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | CONFUSING AUTHORS $2000: "Flight of the Intruder" writer Stephen & "Mr. Murder" writer Dean R. have these homophonic last names Coonts/Koontz |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | MALE AUTHORS $400 (Daily Double): "Catch as Catch Can" is a posthumous collection of stories by this real-life WWII bombardier Joseph Heller |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | MALE AUTHORS $400: Admitted to the Mississippi bar in 1981, he was inspired to write his first novel by a trial he observed in 1984 John Grisham |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | MALE AUTHORS $800: The photo of this author seems to have been taken far from the madding crowd Thomas Hardy |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | MALE AUTHORS $1200: He wrote, "The portrait should bear the burden of his days, and... keep the unsullied splendour of eternal youth" Oscar Wilde |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | MALE AUTHORS $1600: In "Rikki Tikki Tavi", he wrote, "Turn for turn and twist for twist... hah! The hooded death has missed!" Kipling |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $200: In 1973 Norman Mailer added this suffix to "fact" for "facts which have no existence before appearing" in the media a factoid |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $400: Stephen King's "Christine" is the first novel to use "shut your" this pastry orifice piehole |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $600: Sir Walter Scott used this term to mean a mercenary knight; today, it refers to work project-by-project freelance |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $800: Fittingly for some readers, the OED's first citation for "boredom" is this author's "Bleak House" Dickens |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1955 novel is responsible for popularizing the word "nymphet" Lolita |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | 5 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR AUTHORS $400: Atticus Finch Harper Lee |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | 5 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR AUTHORS $800: Elizabeth Bennet (Jane) Austen |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | 5 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR AUTHORS $1,400 (Daily Double): Gregor Samsa (Franz) Kafka |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | 5 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR AUTHORS $1600: Antonia Shimerda Willa Cather |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | 5 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR AUTHORS $2000: Liesel Meminger Markus Zusak |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: As Kennilworthy Whisp, J.K. Rowling wrote a book about this sport "Through the Ages" Quidditch |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "We loved monkeys" is how Margret Rey explained the creation of this inquisitive character Curious George |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: This Theodore Dreiser novel in which the title woman becomes a Broadway star was partly based on one of his siblings Sister Carrie |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,800 (Daily Double): His last 2 novels, "Omerta" & "The Family" were published after his death in 1999 Mario Puzo |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Published in 2017, "A Column of Fire" continues his Kingsbridge saga that began with "The Pillars of the Earth" Ken Follett |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | AMERICAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In 2004 this beloved author was honored on the stamp seen here Dr. Seuss |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | AMERICAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: She co-wrote the screenplay for the first "Hunger Games" movie Suzanne Collins |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | AMERICAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Before he ventured to Venus & Mars, he published a book called "What You Feel You Can Heal" John Gray |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | AMERICAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: He used the pen name William Lee when "Junkie" was published in 1953 William S. Burroughs |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | AMERICAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: The title character of this Edith Wharton novel is in love with Mattie Silver, his wife's cousin Ethan Frome |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $200: Mordor J. R. R. Tolkien |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $400: Azkaban Prison (J. K.) Rowling |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $800: The town of Hadleyburg Mark Twain |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1000: Calormen--it's south of a more famous land C. S. Lewis |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $2,000 (Daily Double): Brobdingnag Jonathan Swift |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: In her "Little Town on the Prairie", the main character turns 15 & is getting ready to teach school Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: James Corden voices Peter Rabbit in a 2018 film that's a very 21st century take on a work by this author Beatrix Potter |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: A book by this author begins, "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. We're moving today" Judy Blume |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: One-word titles by this author include "Sula", "Jazz" & "Paradise" Toni Morrison |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: She's the bestselling author of the novels "The Nightingale", "Home Front" & "Firefly Lane" Kristin Hannah |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | JAPANESE AUTHORS $400: In the 17th century the 17 syllables were mastered by Basho, who pioneered the "new style" of this poetry haiku |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | JAPANESE AUTHORS $800: In 1994 rebellious Kenzaburo Oe rejected the Japanese Order of Culture but accepted this more famous prize the Nobel |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | JAPANESE AUTHORS $1200: In Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country", Komako is this type of courtesan a geisha |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | JAPANESE AUTHORS $1600: This bloody Koushun Takami novel pitted teens against each other nearly a decade before "The Hunger Games" Battle Royale |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | JAPANESE AUTHORS $2000: Change one of the digits of 1984 to a letter to get the title of this Orwellian Haruki Murakami novel 1Q84 |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: While a student at Northwestern, Veronica Roth wrote this young adult novel set in a futuristic Chicago Divergent |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: This author of "My Sister's Keeper" & "Nineteen Minutes" says she writes about the things that keep her up at night Jodi Picoult |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Hugh Lofting's letters to his kids from the WWI front evolved into the tales of this physician who talks to animals Dr. Dolittle |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Following World War II, he built an estate in Jamaica called Goldeneye Ian Fleming |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: "About a Boy" & "Fever Pitch" are among his books that have been made into movies Nick Hornby |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1600: His first literary success, "Eye of the Needle" was originally published as "Storm Island" Ken Follett |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: Banned upon publication, this author's "The Rainbow" was described by one magistrate as "utter filth" D.H. Lawrence |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES $400: "Kipling Sahib" details the author's birth in this country, being sent to England, hating it there & going back India |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES $800: God bless us, every one who reads "The Man Who Invented Christmas", about this author Dickens |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES $1200: "Eden's Outcasts" tells how her dad's transcendentalist utopia failed and how her writing paid the bills Louisa May Alcott |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter 5 of Philip Nel's book about this author is "The Disneyfication of" him: "Faithful to Profit, One Hundred Percent?" Dr. Seuss |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES $2000: "A Rather Haunted Life" is the subtitle of a book about this "Hill House" novelist Shirley Jackson |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: Gore Vidal was born at this military academy & drew on his WWII experiences for his first novel, "Williwaw" West Point |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $800: The Marquis de Sade served as an officer during this 1756-1763 war the Seven Years' War |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1200: At the age of 40, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle volunteered as a military doctor during this war in Africa the Boer War |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1600: He fought & was wounded in the Spanish Civil War & wrote about it in "Homage to Catalonia" George Orwell |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $2000: Having served in Britain's RAF may have helped Arthur Hailey write this bestselling 1968 thriller Airport |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: It begins, "How it happened that Maestro Cherry, Carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept & laughed like a child" (The Adventures of) Pinocchio |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: He calls himself a "Giant of the Senate" in his memoir detailing his unlikely turn from comedian to politician Al Franken |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This business handbook by Spencer Johnson has a question as its title & a parable about mice Who Moved My Cheese? |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: "The Encircling Sea" is a chapter in her nonfiction book "The Sea Around Us" Rachel Carson |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Kind of like a Swedish Forrest Gump is the novel called "The 100-Year-Old Man" who did this "& Disappeared" 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Time magazine's 1951 review of this novel said Holden Caulfield's code is "survival of the flippest" Catcher in the Rye |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Robert James Waller, who passed away in 2017, was best known for this bittersweet tale set in Iowa The Bridges of Madison County |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: The preface to Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" was written by this lover & fellow author Anais Nin |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This blockbuster novel by William P. Young about a spiritual journey was made into a 2017 film The Shack |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: His 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here" is a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States Sinclair Lewis |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | AUTHORS' NEW DIRECTIONS $400: Pregnant in 1959, Sylvia Plath wrote "The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit" for these people children |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | AUTHORS' NEW DIRECTIONS $800: Jack Kerouac's only play was titled this "Generation" Beat |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | AUTHORS' NEW DIRECTIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): He temporarily dropped the spy stuff in 1971's "The Naive and Sentimental Lover" John le Carré |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | AUTHORS' NEW DIRECTIONS $1600: His third novel, "Mother Night", was his first to abandon science fiction Vonnegut |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | AUTHORS' NEW DIRECTIONS $2000: The past-obsessed Marcel Proust wrote a book of these parodies that begin with "past" pastiches |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: He set "For Whom the Bell Tolls" during the Spanish Civil War, which he had covered as a war correspondent Hemingway |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: This Jack of many trades sought fortune in the 1897 Klondike gold rush & used the experience in his books Jack London |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: A stamp collector herself, this "Atlas Shrugged" author appeared on a 1999 stamp (Ayn) Rand |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: A permanent expatriate, this "Black Boy" author died in France in 1960 Richard Wright |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: She dedicated her short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" to Bob Dylan Joyce Carol Oates |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Martha Finley wrote 28 novels about Elsie, a virtuous Southern girl who lives on these including the Oaks & Roselands plantations |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Johanna Spyri spent summers in the Swiss Alps & used her memories in this book about an orphan girl sent to live there Heidi |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Henrik Ibsen was influenced by Camilla Collett, a 19th c. novelist & women's rights advocate in this, their home country Norway |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: Her "Silas Marner" is subtitled "The Weaver of Raveloe" George Eliot |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This 3-named "Little Lord Fauntleroy" author also penned "A Little Princess" Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922 & spent some time "On the Road" before his death in 1969 (Jack) Kerouac |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: She was born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama & died there February 19, 2016 Harper Lee |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: His story began in Salinas, California in 1902 & ended in New York in 1968 (John) Steinbeck |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1,000 (Daily Double): Edgar Allan Poe's tale began in Boston in 1809 & ended in this other "B" city in 1849 Baltimore |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1000: Born in England in 1920, he died there in 2016; "Watership Down" came in the middle Richard Adams |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $400: As Peyo, Belgian comic book author Pierre Culliford created this group of small blue humanoids who live in the forest Smurfs |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $800: Moliere dominated 17th c. theatre with works like "Tartuffe", "The Miser" & this 1666 play about a true hater Le Misanthrope |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: This Roman poet's "Art of Love" from around 1 B.C. is a hedonistic seduction manual still useful today Ovid |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1600: The heroine Gigi is known by just one name, and so is this author, her creator Colette |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: The 13th c. Persian poet of "spiritual couplets", Rumi followed this mystical practice that's about as old as Islam itself Sufiism |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $200: A.A.'s pottery ovens Milne's kilns |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $400: Robert B.'s felt-tipped pens Parker's markers |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $600: Amy's cookware Tan's pans |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $800: Ms. Proulx' favorite older relatives Annie's grannies |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $1000: Mr. McCourt's handles to start up Model T Fords Frank's cranks |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | AUTHORS' INITIALS $200: Wove a web about "some pig":
EBW E.B. White |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | AUTHORS' INITIALS $400: He told EB she was "all that is good & kind":
RB Robert Browning |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | AUTHORS' INITIALS $800: He dreamed up "The Sandman" & "Coraline":
NG Neil Gaiman |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | AUTHORS' INITIALS $1000: Creator of "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy":
IBS Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | AUTHORS' INITIALS $2,000 (Daily Double): He liked to rime:
STC Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | PIRATES' FAVORITE AUTHORS--"R"! $400: With "A Clash of Kings" & "A Storm of Swords", this author is a buccaneer favorite George R.R. Martin |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | PIRATES' FAVORITE AUTHORS--"R"! $800: He wrote of the Corsairs of the Umbar, seaborne raiders corrupted by Sauron J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | PIRATES' FAVORITE AUTHORS--"R"! $1200: As wee lads, most pirates got goosebumps reading his series of the same name R.L. Stine |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | PIRATES' FAVORITE AUTHORS--"R"! $1600: All the mateys love the work of this graphic novelist, whose Zap Comix work is seen here R. Crumb |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | PIRATES' FAVORITE AUTHORS--"R"! $2000: Pirates cheered when this historian & military leader was chosen as Donald Trump's national security advisor Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Poet Katharine Lee Bates used her amber waves of brain to pen the lyrics to this patriotic song "America The Beautiful" |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Ponyboy gets acquitted of manslaughter, but Dally gets shot by the police after a robbery in this S.E. Hinton book The Outsiders |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Her historical time travel "Outlander" series has been a worldwide hit both in book form & on TV Gabaldon |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1950s, this well-traveled Danish author was a contender for a Nobel Prize Isak Dinesen |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: In "The Women of" this location, Gloria Naylor wove together the stories of 7 African-American women Brewster Place |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $400: Following the success of "Little Women", she wrote in her journal, "Paid up all the debts... thank the Lord!" (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $800: Tarzana, in California's San Fernando Valley, is named for this resident's most famous creation Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $1600: His "The General in His Labyrinth" is a historical novel about Simon Bolivar's last days Gabriel García Marquez |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: "Here I Am"--that's the 2016 novel by this "Everything Is Illuminated" author, & here he is (Jonathan Safran) Foer |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a 1902 novel he wrote, "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" (Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: This "White Fang" author's "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" was based in part on his 1912 voyage around Cape Horn Jack London |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $800: In old age Colette wrote this 1944 novella of a girl raised to be a courtesan, adapted as a movie musical Gigi |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1200: In 1867 he took a 5-month cruise to the Mediterranean; his newspaper articles sent back home became "The Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1600: The curator of the Lahore Museum in the first chapter of "Kim" is based on this author's father, who once held the position Kipling |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $2000: W. Somerset Maugham's childhood was material for the life of orphan Philip Carey in this 1915 novel Of Human Bondage |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In 2016 Bruce Springsteen released an autobiography called this, a title he'd used before Born to Run |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: The first part of this H.G. Wells novel is "The Coming of the Martians"; part 2 is "The Earth Under the Martians" War of the Worlds |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: "Deep Down" & "Never Go Back" are 2 of Lee Child's tales about this tough ex-Army guy (Jack) Reacher |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This giant of African-American lit was named after another literary great: Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Ellison |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: A little bird told me that this Kristin Hannah novel is the story of 2 French sisters living through World War II The Nightingale |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: This author wrote that he "wept and laughed, and wept again" while creating "A Christmas Carol" Charles Dickens |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: Her "Wuthering Heights" was published just 2 months after sister Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" Emily Brontë |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: Look at the haunted eyes of this Russian author... why, he looks like one of the possessed Dostoevsky |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: This English novelist introduced his semi-fictional county of Wessex in "Far from the Madding Crowd" Thomas Hardy |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: This author known for such rags-to-riches stories as "Fame and Fortune" never quite attained riches himself Horatio Alger |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: During a train trip E.B. White dreamed up this "small character who had the features of a mouse" Stuart Little |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In 1986 he & wife Tabitha created a foundation to provide support for Maine communities (Stephen) King |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer for Fiction for this novel The Color Purple |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: If you're only going to publish one novel in your lifetime, make it worth it, like this man did with "Invisible Man" Ralph Ellison |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: This bestseller by Ta-Nehisi Coates is in the form of a letter to his son on race & life Between the World and Me |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): The 1845 "Narrative of the Life of" this man was published just 7 years after he escaped slavery Frederick Douglass |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: This author of "The Bluest Eye" was made an officer of the French Legion of Honor in 2010 Toni Morrison |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Sink your teeth into this author's other novels like "The Witching Hour" & "The Vampire Armand" Anne Rice |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: In "Little Women", Louisa May Alcott portrayed herself as this second-oldest March girl, who naturally becomes a writer Jo |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: This best-selling author's works, in part, explore mother-daughter relationships and the immigrant experience Amy Tan |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: Much of this Maeve Binchy novel covers the teen years of Irish gal pals Benny Hogan & Eve Malone Circle of Friends |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This 18th century feminist author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" died after giving birth to Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $400: Mark Twain got the idea for his pen name from his time in this job a steamboat pilot |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $800: He designed pencils at his father's factory, then used them to write "Walden" Thoreau |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $1200: Aristotle & Casanova both held this job AKA a bibliothecary a librarian |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $1600: This job didn't bug William S. Burroughs; he wrote a story about it in which a boss eats the arsenic for fun an exterminator |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $2000: He got to know tangled bureaucracy working for the Bohemian government's Worker's Comp Bureau (Franz) Kafka |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: In 1990 Time magazine called this "Presumed Innocent" author the "Bard of the Litigious Age" Scott Turow |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: John Steinbeck got a Shetland to ride when he was a boy, inspiring this tale about young Jody Tifflin The Red Pony |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: His first published novel, "The Notebook", was inspired by the relationship of his wife's grandparents Nicholas Sparks |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: "Achilles in Left Field" was the title of Norman Podhoretz' review of this first novel by Bernard Malamud The Natural |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: In 1984 a Presidential Medal of Freedom went to this author of "Hondo" & dozens of other Western novels Louis L'Amour |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Mildred Wirt Benson wrote more than 100 books for young readers including many about this young female detective Nancy Drew |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This woman who wrote more than 1,700 poems was featured on a U.S. stamp in 1971 (Emily) Dickinson |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: She spun off her "Vampire Academy" series into another titled "Bloodlines" Richelle Mead |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi is a memorable graphic novel about growing up in this Middle East country Iran |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Writing after WWI, Edith Wharton looked back to 1870s New York in this novel about Newland Archer & Ellen Olenska The Age of Innocence |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $200: This title character was inspired by stories Rick Riordan told his son about the gods & heroes in Greek mythology Percy Jackson |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $400: This author's official bio can be found at wimpykid.com (Jeff) Kinney |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $600: She is the author of "Insurgent", the second book in a series (Veronica) Roth |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $800: She was inspired to write "The Princess Diaries" when her mom began dating her teacher, just like Mia's mom in the book Meg Cabot |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $1000: Mark Haddon, who worked with people with autism, made his main character autistic in this "Curious" novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $400: In 1359 Geoffrey Chaucer was captured in France as a soldier in this war; luckily he wasn't held for its whole duration the Hundred Years' War |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $800: After the Civil War this bestselling author spent time in the South & "Palmetto Leaves" is a book about her life in Florida Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $1200: This Irish-born English satirist's travels took him to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where he became dean in 1713 Jonathan Swift |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $1600: This "Magic Mountain" author left Germany for the same L.A. street where O.J. Simpson later lived Thomas Mann |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $2000: Written while she lived in France, "Tender Buttons" is a 1914 collection of poems by this American author & art patron Gertrude Stein |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $400: In 1809 he published "A History of New York" under the pen name Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $800: Not John but Anne is the first name of this author of "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" (Anne) Tyler |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $1200: Her haunting short story "The Lottery" first appeared in the New Yorker in 1948 (Shirley) Jackson |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $1600: This title of Stephen Carter's Cuban Missile Crisis thriller means a secret avenue of communication between nations Back Channel |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $2000: John Kennedy Toole took this novel title from a quote by Jonathan Swift A Confederacy of Dunces |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IMPRISONED AUTHORS $400: The Marquis de Sade wrote his scandalous novel "Justine" in this lockup the Bastille |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IMPRISONED AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Call of the Wild" served 30 days in the Erie County Penitentiary for vagrancy Jack London |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IMPRISONED AUTHORS $1600: Marco Polo dictated his far east adventures while in prison in this city, Venice's rival Genoa |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IMPRISONED AUTHORS $2000: In the 1670s this Puritan thinker began "The Pilgrim's Progress" while in prison for illegal preaching (John) Bunyan |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IMPRISONED AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): Oscar Wilde wrote his confessional essay "De Profundis" while imprisoned in this gaol Reading Gaol |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Her own "Age of Innocence" began on Jan. 24, 1862, when she was born into a wealthy & socially prominent New York family Edith Wharton |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $800: Elizabeth Gilbert's experience as a bartender became an article for GQ Magazine & this 2000 movie Coyote Ugly |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $1600: As a boy, Kahlil Gibran wore a cross for 40 days for a splint; as a man he wrote this 1923 mystical work The Prophet |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $2000: In 1945 she & Jean-Paul Sartre founded a monthly review called Les Temps Modernes Simone de Beauvoir |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): She matched her initials with the pen name Currer Bell & ended up marrying a man named Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte Brontë |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Readers had to wait 13 years between his first novel "Catch-22", & his next, "Something Happened" Joseph Heller |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Curtis Sittenfeld made Liz' older sister Jane a yoga instructor in "Eligible", a retelling of this classic Pride and Prejudice |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: After a little hocus pocus, this author's signature turns into a self-portrait Kurt Vonnegut |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: A socialist newspaper sent him to investigate Chicago stockyards; the result was "The Jungle" Sinclair |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: "The Mufti Who Tried to Close Our School" is a chapter in the memoir "I Am" this person Malala |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: "Little House in the Big Woods" was her first novel about her family's life in the late 1800s Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: To play this author in "The Hours", Nicole Kidman donned a fake nose Virginia Woolf |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: She's had the "metal" to sell 650 million copies of her books, like 2016's "Property of a Noblewoman" (Danielle) Steel |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Enid Bagnold wrote this 1935 tale of a young woman who wins a prestigious race on a horse she won in a raffle National Velvet |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Known for her sharp wit, in the 1920s, she wrote articles for Vanity Fair & The New Yorker Dorothy Parker |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: A manuscript by this "Good Earth" author was lost for 40 years, found in a storage unit in Texas & published in 2013 (Pearl) Buck |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: She made a splash with her 1970 young adult novel "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?" (Judy) Blume |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: In "The Mill on the Floss", she wrote, "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history" George Eliot |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: The 10th novel in Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders" fantasy series is titled "The Renegades of" this planet Pern |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: A towering tale of the old west, "Cimarron" by this "Show Boat" author was the No. 1 book of 1930 Edna Ferber |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: While in the army he wrote the initial draft of his first novel, "This Side of Paradise" Fitzgerald |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Due to fear U.S. readers wouldn't pronounce its title properly, this first James Bond book was published as "You Asked For It" Casino Royale |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: He spent much of his later years in Italy observing what he called "The United States of Amnesia" Gore Vidal |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: With an architect friend, this "Ethan Frome" author wrote an interior design book, "The Decoration of Houses" (Edith) Wharton |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): Hemingway's 1936 Esquire essay "On the Blue Water" formed the basis for this 1952 story The Old Man and the Sea |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS $400: 1914:
"Dubliners" James Joyce |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS $800: 1951:
"The Illustrated Man" Ray Bradbury |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS $1200: First published in 1837, this New Englander's "Twice-Told Tales" Hawthorne |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS $1600: 2015:
"Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances" by this British author & comic book writer Neil Gaiman |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS $2000: 1968:
"Welcome to the Monkey House" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The title character in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" moves from the Deep South to this New York City district Harlem |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: In 1998 author Gloria Naylor revisited this title "Place", this time giving "The Men" a chance to be heard from Brewster Place |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress" saw the 1st appearance of this "effortless" detective in 1940s Los Angeles Easy Rawlins |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Anthony is the middle name of this award-winning author who released her 11th novel, "God Help the Child", in 2015 Toni Morrison |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: Chester Himes explored racism in this book whose 6-word title is in the rhyme "Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo" If He Hollers Let Him Go |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400 (Daily Double): "A Clockwork Counterpoint" is a 2010 study of this author's more than 250 musical compositions (Anthony) Burgess |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: You'll find Emma Watson in an unfinished work by her & Emma Woodhouse in a finished work by her Jane Austen |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: 2012's "The Casual Vacancy" was her first published novel for adults J.K. Rowling |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: This detective author wrote 4 follow-ups to 1912's "The Lost World" Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: He progressed from a youth of "vice and ungodliness" to writing "The Pilgrim's Progress" John Bunyan |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: She divorced her husband & moved to France to look back at America & write "The Age of Innocence" Edith Wharton |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: "Money and a room of her own" is what she said a woman needed in order to write fiction Virginia Woolf |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: This 500-million-copy-selling author of sexy novels like "Lucky" & "Hollywood Wives" passed away in 2015 Jackie Collins |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Starring Detective Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's 1st murder mystery was titled "The Mysterious Affair at" this estate Styles |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | WOMEN AUTHORS $3,600 (Daily Double): In "Delta Wedding" Eudora Welty told the tale of a large Southern plantation family in this state Mississippi |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS $400: This 14th century "Tales" teller & poet penned the prose work "A Treatise on the Astrolabe" Chaucer |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS $800: This author's "The Diamond Smugglers" is nonfiction, but it's about a British secret agent who uses gadgets (Ian) Fleming |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS $1200: F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote 17 "Pat Hobby" stories about a down-&-out one of these writers, a job Scott knew well scriptwriter |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS $1600: Along with his doggone novels, he wrote "That Spot", a short story about a faithful dog Jack London |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS $2000: "Dracula" author Bram Stoker also wrote about "The Lair of" this pale monster the White Worm |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | AUTHORS $200: This poet wrote passionately about nature, love &, of course, himself Whitman |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | AUTHORS $400: He's seen here in the 1950s at Oxford, Mississippi, not the other one (William) Faulkner |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | AUTHORS $600: He's the sometimes bitter Irish-born 18th century satirist seen here (Jonathan) Swift |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | AUTHORS $800: In 2012 this author received a Presidential Medal of Freedom Toni Morrison |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | AUTHORS $1000: He saw a lot of 20th century innovations coming before anyone else H.G. Wells |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: There's no excuse for not knowing that Sue Grafton began her Alphabet Mysteries with this book A is for Alibi |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Since Robert B. Parker's death, Ace Atkins has taken over writing the books about this detective for hire Spenser |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Anthony Doerr won a 2015 Pulitzer for this novel that centers on a blind French girl & a young Nazi soldier All the Light We Cannot See |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: In 1968 this Argentine author published his first novel, "Betrayed by Rita Hayworth" (Manuel) Puig |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | A BIT ABOUT AUTHORS $400: This author of "The Hotel New Hampshire" was born in New Hampshire in 1942 John Irving |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | A BIT ABOUT AUTHORS $800: Her uncle was president of Chile from 1970 to 1973 Isabel Allende |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | A BIT ABOUT AUTHORS $1200: Tales of bounty hunters chasing down escaped slaves inspired her to write "Beloved" Toni Morrison |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | A BIT ABOUT AUTHORS $1600: He was a staff writer for the New Yorker before writing novels like "Rabbit, Run" John Updike |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | A BIT ABOUT AUTHORS $2000: For refusing to testify against fellow Communists, this "Maltese Falcon" author spent 5 months in prison Dashiell Hammett |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $400: Born Howard Allen O'Brien, this vampire author changed her first name to Anne in first grade (Anne) Rice |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Road" told Oprah he doesn't use commas because they "block the page up with weird little marks" (Cormac) McCarthy |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $1200: He's been responsible for such phrases as "the Me Decade" & "radical chic" Tom Wolfe |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $1600: Richard Ford introduced Frank Bascombe in this 1986 novel with Frank's journalism job as its title The Sportswriter |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $2000: This author based his "Wonder Boys" character Grady Tripp on his Univ. of Pittsburgh English professor Chuck Kinder Michael Chabon |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This Laura Hillenbrand bestseller is subtitled "A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption" Unbroken |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1994 she published a book for kiddies called "The Chinese Siamese Cat" Amy Tan |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova, a 50-year-old college professor is diagnosed with this Alzheimer's disease |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: A character known as Oliver Stone is the leader of the Camel Club in political thrillers by this former attorney David Baldacci |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This Upton Sinclair novel with a 3-letter title was inspired by the Teapot Dome scandal Oil |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: This master of the techno-thriller was born in Baltimore in 1947 & died there in 2013 Tom Clancy |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: Born in 1932 in Boston, she died by her own hand in London in 1963 Sylvia Plath |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $600: This Nobel Prize winner's story began in Colombia in the 1920s & ended in Mexico City in 2014 (Gabriel García) Márquez |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Born in Russia in 1905, she died in capitalist New York in 1982 Ayn Rand |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1000: Born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he died in 1951 near Rome Sinclair Lewis |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Born in Oklahoma City in 1914, he was named for the Transcendentalist author of "Self-Reliance" Ralph Ellison |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote 2 novels: "Not Without Laughter" & "Tambourines to Glory" (Langston) Hughes |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: His relationship with his minister stepfather provided the basis for his 1953 novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain" James Baldwin |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: In 2014 this former stand-up comic released his 21st novel, "A Wanted Woman" Eric Jerome Dickey |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $7,000 (Daily Double): She won a 1993 Grammy for her reading of her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" Angelou |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: The year he turned 32, William Blake published "Songs of" this; by 37 he "lost" his & made "Songs of Experience" Innocence |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $800: While writing "Tropic of Cancer" in Paris, he served as a proofreader for the French edition of the Chicago Tribune (Henry) Miller |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1200: Of the reaction to this novel, Upton Sinclair said, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach" The Jungle |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $2000: Perhaps it was "An American Tragedy" that there was a ban on this author's semi-autobiographical "The 'Genius'" (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $5,000 (Daily Double): O, by the way, Willa Cather took the title of this 1913 novel from a Walt Whitman poem O Pioneers! |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Basic Instinct" & "Traffic" actor who got wacky & wrote "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Michael Douglas Adams |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Marathon Man" novelist/screenwriter & investment bank whose stock symbol is GS William Goldman Sachs |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Paradise Lost" poet who won who the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976 John Milton Friedman |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: George Harrison song that says, "I really want to see you" & is the titled poet who was mad, bad & dangerous to know My Sweet Lord Byron |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: "The Cantos" poet who is a dessert made with flour, butter, sugar & eggs Ezra Pound Cake |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: After marrying an American, he moved to the U.S., where he wrote the 2 "Jungle Books" (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: He wrote "The War in the Air" as well as "The War of the Worlds" H.G. Wells |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: John Fowles' best-known work is this 1969 novel that was made into a movie starring Meryl Streep The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: Here's this beloved author giving a reading circa 1860 (Charles) Dickens |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: Sharing the nickname "The Queen of Crime" are Agatha Christie & this author of the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries P.D. James |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: The 2013 documentary "Beauty in Truth" looks at the life of this "Color Purple" author & activist (Alice) Walker |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: She wrote for children's TV shows like "Clarissa Explains It All" before turning out "The Hunger Games" (Suzanne) Collins |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: In 2013 Helen Fielding published her third novel featuring this now-50-something diarist Bridget Jones |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: She introduced bounty hunter Stephanie Plum in 1994's "One for the Money" (Janet) Evanovich |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Appropriately "The Finishing School" was the final novel by this author of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" Dame Muriel Spark |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $400: In Concord, Massachusetts, you can tour the home where she wrote & set "Little Women" (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $800: Author of more than 200 works, Nora Roberts was the first inductee of the Hall of Fame for writers in this genre romance |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $1200: Meg Cabot created the not-quite-ready-to-be-royal Mia in this young adult series of "Diaries" The Princess Diaries |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $1600: The title of Maeve Binchy's novel "Tara Road" refers to a street in this world capital Dublin |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $2000: "The Hundred Secret Senses" is one of her novels exploring Asian-American family relationships Amy Tan |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $200: His experience teaching unruly boys helped inspire his book "Lord of the Flies" (William) Golding |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $400: The last name of this Mexican poet, a winner in 1990, means peace (Octavio) Paz |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $800: For his work with the French Resistance during WWII, this Irish playwright was awarded the Croix de Guerre Beckett |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1000: He said his novel "Main Street" was his first "to rouse the embattled peasantry" (Sinclair) Lewis |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): This woman is truly "Beloved", winning a Pulitzer in 1988 & a Nobel in 1993 Toni Morrison |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | AUTHORS $200: "Slaughterhouse-Five" was the first of his novels to feature his own drawings (Kurt) Vonnegut |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | AUTHORS $400: This tale spinner continues to delight with more frights to come Stephen King |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | AUTHORS $600: Fittingly, this last name of "Girl With A Pearl Earring" historical novelist Tracy means "Knight" Chevalier |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | AUTHORS $800: In 2010, the 25th anniversary of his "Less Than Zero", he published a sequel called "Imperial Bedrooms" (Bret Easton) Ellis |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | AUTHORS $1000: In 1960 she delivered a campus lecture titled "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World" Ayn Rand |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | AUTHORS' MUSEUMS $200: He has a House & Museum in Hartford & a Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal Mark Twain |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | AUTHORS' MUSEUMS $400: Once upon a time in 1908, his museum opened in Odense, Denmark, one of the first museums dedicated to a writer Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | AUTHORS' MUSEUMS $600: Appropriately, a tower in Ireland that was a setting in "Ulysses" houses a museum devoted to this author (James) Joyce |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | AUTHORS' MUSEUMS $800: Items at her museum include Pa's fiddle, tools made by Almanzo & handwritten manuscripts for her novels Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | AUTHORS' MUSEUMS $1000: The actual camper he used in "Travels with Charley" is on display at his National Center in California John Steinbeck |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | AUTHORS $400: He had planned a 10-volume series featuring Mikael Blomkvist & Lisbeth Salander but died after completing only 3 Stieg Larsson |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | AUTHORS $800: This author of a fantasy series set in the land of Westeros was a conscientious objector during Vietnam (George) Martin |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | AUTHORS $1200: English poet Matthew Arnold was the great-uncle of this author of "Brave New World" (Aldous) Huxley |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | AUTHORS $1600: "The transcendent simplicity and energy of the highest law" is mentioned in his essay "The Over-Soul" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | AUTHORS $2000: "Pale Fire", a reference to moonlight in "Timon of Athens", is the title of a 1962 novel by this Russian-born man Vladimir Nabokov |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS BY PARTIAL TITLE $200: "Pelican"
(1992) John Grisham |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS BY PARTIAL TITLE $400: "Sematary"
(1983) Stephen King |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS BY PARTIAL TITLE $600: "Jurassic"
(1990) Michael Crichton |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS BY PARTIAL TITLE $800: "Moreau"
(1896) H.G. Wells |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS BY PARTIAL TITLE $1000: "Augie"
(1953) Saul Bellow |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $400: On February 7, 1867 she was born in a little house in the big woods in Lake Pepin, Wisconsin Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $800: In 1966 Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of this defense lawyer, appeared as a judge in the final episode of the TV series Perry Mason |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: In 1936 he published an autobiography titled "Across Spoon River" Edgar Lee Masters |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $1600: In 2014 she celebrated her 50th year as a novelist with the release of "Carthage" Joyce Carol Oates |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: This Yiddish writer's short story "Gimpel the Fool" was translated into English in 1953 Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $200: Books by this president include "Where's the Rest of Me?", a title from a line in the movie "King's Row" Ronald Reagan |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $400: This Al Gore book is subtitled "The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It" An Inconvenient Truth |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $600: "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" is by this funnyman-turned-Minnesota senator Al Franken |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2003 this onetime head of the State department told her groundbreaking story in "Madame Secretary" Madeleine Albright |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $1000: This Republican who ran for president in 2012 is the author of "End the Fed" Ron Paul |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $200: Beatrix' water mammals Potter's otters |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $400: Philip's clear, thin soups Roth's broths |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $600: Umberto's lizards Eco's geckos |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $800: Hillerman's sliced luncheon meats Tony's bolognas |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $1000: Koontz's mungs & favas Dean's beans |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $400: Brobdingnag Jonathan Swift |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $800: Lake Wobegon Garrison Keillor |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1200: Panem Suzanne Collins |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1600: Arrakis, aka Dune (Frank) Herbert |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $3,500 (Daily Double): The city of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In 1826 he moved his young family to Europe & legally added Fenimore to his name James Fenimore Cooper |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Her indignation over the Fugitive Slave Act led to the writing of her most famous novel, published in 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: Research for his novel "Sophie's Choice" included a reading of the memoirs of the commandant of Auschwitz William Styron |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: Most of her main characters, including those in "The Accidental Tourist", have lived in Baltimore, like she does (Anne) Tyler |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: This Texan won the 2006 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain" Larry McMurtry |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS $400: In 1905 this Dubliner & his future wife Nora moved to Trieste, where he taught English (James) Joyce |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS $800: Born in Lebanon, Khalil Gibran titled books in English "The Madman", "The Forerunner" & this foreteller The Prophet |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS $1200: In 1865 this French author wrote about a space flight launched from Florida that later splashes down in the Pacific Jules Verne |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS $1600: This Romanian-born French playwright also wrote for children, the series "Stories 1, 2, 3, 4" that he himself called "silly" (Eugène) Ionesco |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Australia, she wrote 1934's "Mary Poppins" & several sequels P.L. Travers |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | AUTHORS' PLOTS $200: Grave markers for him & his wife in Oxford bear the names of 2 Middle-earth characters (J.R.R.) Tolkien |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | AUTHORS' PLOTS $400: His ashes were buried in his mother's family plot in Salinas, California Steinbeck |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | AUTHORS' PLOTS $600: After his death in Samoa, this Scotsman's body was taken to a plot atop Mount Vaea Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | AUTHORS' PLOTS $800: Sadly, there are no trees near this poet's plot in an American military cemetery in Picardie, France Joyce Kilmer |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | AUTHORS' PLOTS $1,000 (Daily Double): The monument for his grave in Elmira, New York is 2 fathoms tall Mark Twain |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: On occasion he humorously signed autographs "Dr. John Watson" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: She's depicted
in the portrait seen here Jane Austen |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: Sadly, the daughter for whom he wrote the "Just So Stories" died at age 6 Rudyard Kipling |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In an 1890 letter, he called himself "a Polish nobleman, cased in British tar" Joseph Conrad |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: His novel "Atonement" was turned into a 2007 movie with Keira Knightley Ian McEwan |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He noted, "I had sent my heroine... down a rabbit-hole... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards" (Lewis) Carroll |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800 (Daily Double): Between 1872 & 1882 she wrote 6 volumes of "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag" Louisa May Alcott |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1893 this British man published his "initial" book, a "text-book of biology"; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In 1863 he put out a book originally titled "Voyage au Centre de la Terre" Jules Verne |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Before "Downton Abbey", there was this, the shortest of Jane Austen's 6 major novels Northanger Abbey |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: In 2011 this muggle topped Forbes' list of "the 10 most powerful women authors" J.K. Rowling |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: "Kinsey and Me" is a collection of short stories & autobiographical sketches by this author of the alphabet mysteries Sue Grafton |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: In 2013 this author of the memoir "Eat Pray Love" turned to historical fiction with "The Signature of all Things" Elizabeth Gilbert |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: In 2011 Oxford's Bodleian Library acquired her handwritten draft for "The Watsons", a novel begun around 1804 Jane Austen |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: In a 1930 letter she wrote, "As an experience madness is terrific... & in its lava I... find most of the things I write about" (Virginia) Woolf |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He wrote his first 2 novels, "A Time to Kill" & "The Firm", while working at a Southaven, Miss. law office (John) Grisham |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Ann Brashares' "The Second Summer of the Sisterhood" was a follow-up to this novel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In a bestselling tale about high school, Bel Kaufman took us "Up the Down" this Staircase |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Coral Sea" & "Mutiny" were 2 of the stories in this 1947 James Michener work Tales of the South Pacific |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This 1959 Philip Roth novella begins, "the first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses" Goodbye, Columbus |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | AUTHORS' NAMES $400: Born Jozef Korzeniowski, he went to the "heart of darkness" as a writer in English (Joseph) Conrad |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | AUTHORS' NAMES $800: Before this author of western novels dropped the first name Pearl, he made a lovely shade for tile flooring (Zane) Grey |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | AUTHORS' NAMES $1200: Born Marguerite Johnson, the author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" adopted this name as an exotic dancer Maya Angelou |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | AUTHORS' NAMES $1600: Her uncle's life was saved by doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital, so her mother added it to this poet's name (Edna St. Vincent) Millay |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | AUTHORS' NAMES $2000: All things were bright & beautiful for veterinarian Alfred Wight when he wrote under this name James Herriot |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: Henry James once thought that this "Jungle Book" author "contained the seeds of an English Balzac" (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: E.M. Forster called this "Lord Jim" author "misty in the middle as well as at the edges" (Joseph) Conrad |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1200: This horror master didn't sugarcoat it: "(J.K.) Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn" (Stephen) King |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1600: F. Scott Fitzgerald said this author's "inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy" Hemingway |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Raft" said this author "in white stands gleaming like a pillar of the night" Mark Twain |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $200: He wove the Book of Revelation into his final Narnia book, "The Last Battle" C.S. Lewis |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $400: On June 2, 2003 she awoke from a dream with the characters Edward & Isabella in mind Stephenie Meyer |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $600: As a teenager in Missouri, he got a job as a writer on his brother's newspaper, the Hannibal Western Union Mark Twain |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $800: Captain George North was the pseudonym this author first used for "Treasure Island" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $1000: While living in Paris in the 1820s, this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote plays to support himself Washington Irving |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS $400: If his "Finnegans Wake" is hard to fathom, try this Irishman's kids' book "The Cat & the Devil" (James) Joyce |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS $800: James Bond had some cool cars, but none as cool as this flying title one of another Ian Fleming book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS $1200: The ends justify the means in "La Mandragola", a bawdy comedy by this political writer of 16th century Italy Machiavelli |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS $1600: "St, George and the Godfather" is Norman Mailer's take on the presidential campaign of this year 1972 |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS $2000: "La Vita Nuova" tells of his first sight of Beatrice when they were both 9 Dante |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: Born June 2, 1840 in England; went far from the madding crowd Jan. 11, 1928 Hardy |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Born in Russia in 1920; died some 500 books & 72 years later in New York City Isaac Asimov |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1600: Born in Scotland in 1850; died in Samoa in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $2000: Born in 1913 in Algeria; died in a car accident in France in 1960 (Albert) Camus |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1917 in England;
died in 2008 (not 2001) in Sri Lanka (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $400: "When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'" (Joseph) Heller |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $800: "Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or whether we are characters in one of my novels" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $1600: "I choose to be a... New Hampshire farmer with an income in cash of say a thousand (from...a publisher in New York City)" Robert Frost |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $2000: Not the modest type, in 1882 he told a U.S. Customs official, "I have nothing to declare except my genius" Oscar Wilde |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $5,000 (Daily Double): "Somewhere in Germany is a stream called the Vonne, that is the source of my curious name" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In 2010 this city gave landmark status to the homes of Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks & Richard Wright Chicago |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Set 15 years later, Terry McMillan's "Getting to Happy" checks back in on the ladies we last met "Waiting to" do this exhale |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: Set in Georgia, her first novel was 1970's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" Alice Walker |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: (Professor Henry Louis Gates delivers the clue.) This prolific social critic & author of "Race Matters" was my co-author on the 1996 book "The Future of the Race" Cornel West |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Kristin Hunter took the title for her novel "God Bless the Child" from this singer Billie Holiday |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | '60s BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: His "You Only Live Twice" was the last James Bond novel published in his lifetime (Ian) Fleming |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | '60s BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: A contaminated space capsule wipes out the people of a small town in this early novel by Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | '60s BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Perry Smith & Dick Hickock commit multiple Kansas homicides in this 1966 bestseller In Cold Blood |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | '60s BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In 1960 John Updike published this first novel about Harry Angstrom Rabbit, Run |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | '60s BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Before taking off with "Airport", he checked in with "Hotel" (Arthur) Hailey |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS $400: She said Tom Cruise "is no more my vampire...than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler" Anne Rice |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS $800: After he felt Hollywood ruined his "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut", he wouldn't sell "The Catcher in the Rye" J. D. Salinger |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS $1200: This author thought Stanley Kubrick "couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel" (Stephen) King |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Winston Groom's sequel to this book says, "don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story" Forrest Gump |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS $2000: Bret Easton Ellis felt this "American" book never should have been filmed, as it had an unreliable narrator American Psycho |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | AUTHORS $200: Walt Whitman began his best-known poem, "I celebrate" this person, "and sing" him too myself |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | AUTHORS $400: It's no fairy tale: the town of Kassel, Germany has a museum devoted to these brothers the Grimm brothers |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | AUTHORS $600: Mo Willems is the author of the kids' books about this bird--don't let it drive the bus! the pigeon |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | AUTHORS $800: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is the first volume of her autobiography Maya Angelou |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | AUTHORS $1000: This author's losing entry in a 1948 literary contest became the basis for the movie "2001" (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: On Dec. 1, 1859 he was laid to rest at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Washington) Irving |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $800: Former adman Jack Finney wrote this novel to which Hollywood added "Invasion of" The Body Snatchers |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1200: At Walt Disney's request, in 1945 this "Brave New World" author did some preliminary work on "Alice in Wonderland" (Aldous) Huxley |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): A narrator in this French author's multivolume work says, "The materials of my work consisted of my own past" Marcel Proust |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $2000: He was born in Czechoslovakia but moved to England; his play "Rock 'N' Roll" is set in both places (Tom) Stoppard |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LAWYER/ AUTHORS NOT JOHN GRISHAM $400: Royall Tyler's "The Contrast", the 1st professionally produced American comedy, opened April 16, 1787 in this city New York City |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LAWYER/ AUTHORS NOT JOHN GRISHAM $800: With the success of novels like "Treasure Island" for this author, the law would have to wait; he never practiced (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LAWYER/ AUTHORS NOT JOHN GRISHAM $1200: Elmer Rice must have aced Constitution class, as he titled a 1933 play these first 3 words of the Preamble We the People |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LAWYER/ AUTHORS NOT JOHN GRISHAM $1600: This book by lawyer Louis Begley was about a retiring lawyer; the Jack Nicholson movie made him an insurance man About Schmidt |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LAWYER/ AUTHORS NOT JOHN GRISHAM $2000: This 3-named poet maintained his successful Chicago law practice while penning works like "Spoon River Anthology" Edgar Lee Masters |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In a novel by Stephen Chbosky, Charlie tells "The Perks Of Being" this type of shy person at the side of a dance a wallflower |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Hester Prynne is forced to wear the title symbol in this Hawthorne classic The Scarlet Letter |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: The full title of a novella by Robert Louis Stevenson is "The Strange Case of" this pair Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): John Green riffed on a line from "Julius Caesar" for the title of this novel about 2 teens with cancer who fall in love The Fault In Our Stars |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Ransom Riggs blends fiction & photography in this Miss' "Home For Peculiar Children" Miss Peregrine |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Like much of her Vampire Chronicles, her "Feast of All Saints" is set in New Orleans Anne Rice |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This picture of social life in New York during the 1870s earned Edith Wharton a Pulitzer Prize The Age of Innocence |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: First name used by writer Kincaid; she was actually born on another Caribbean island, Antigua Jamaica |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: She's dazzled her readers with novels like "Dazzle", "Princess Daisy" & "Scruples" Judith Krantz |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Sadly, this Irish author whose books include "Tara Road" & "Circle of Friends" died in 2012 at age 72 Maeve Binchy |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | 10 CHARACTERS, 5 AUTHORS $400: Alex Cross,
Daniel X James Patterson |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | 10 CHARACTERS, 5 AUTHORS $1200: Short-tempered Sonny Corleone,
World War II vet Walter Mosca (Mario) Puzo |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | 10 CHARACTERS, 5 AUTHORS $1600: The evil Comanchero named Blue Duck,
the colorful Aurora Greenway Larry McMurtry |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | 10 CHARACTERS, 5 AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Alexander Portnoy,
President Charles Lindbergh Philip Roth |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | 10 CHARACTERS, 5 AUTHORS $2000: Royal rainmaker Eugene Henderson,
Artur Sammler (it's his planet) Saul Bellow |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: In 1575 this "Don Quixote" author's ship was overtaken by pirates; he spent 5 years as a captive in Algiers Cervantes |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $800: This author of "The Winds of War" served on 2 minesweepers Herman Wouk |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1200: This Russian count's "Sevastopol sketches" were based on his army experiences during the Crimean War Leo Tolstoy |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1600: During WWII, this Tarzan creator was the oldest war correspondent to serve in the Pacific theater (Edgar Rice) Burroughs |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): Auctioned in 2011, a letter by this author who satirized the military said, "In truth I enjoyed" fighting in WWII Joseph Heller |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | AUTHORS' FORMER JOBS $200: This "Catcher in the Rye" author wasn't always so reclusive; he was once part of the entertainment crew on a cruise ship Salinger |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | AUTHORS' FORMER JOBS $400: His previous jobs included apprentice painter, surveyor in Big Sur & fruit picker, like his Joads (John) Steinbeck |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | AUTHORS' FORMER JOBS $600: The man behind Sam Spade, he worked for 8 years as a detective for the Pinkerton agency Dashiell Hammett |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | AUTHORS' FORMER JOBS $800: While working as a busboy at a Washington hotel, this Harlem Renaissance poet was discovered by Vachel Lindsay Langston Hughes |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | AUTHORS' FORMER JOBS $1,000 (Daily Double): This novelist served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990 John Grisham |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: Charles Dickens wrote that a visit by this "Fairy Tales" scribe had been "five weeks which seemed to the family ages" Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: After reading this book, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote Walt Whitman, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career" Leaves of Grass |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1200: When reviewing "Dawn" in the New Yorker, she quipped, "Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer" Dorothy Parker |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2000: In 1974, a decade after her suicide, James Dickey called her "the Judy Garland of American poetry" Sylvia Plath |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | AUTHORS: Following his unexpected death in 2001, he was referred to as the "Monty Python of science fiction" Douglas Adams |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | DETECTIVE AUTHORS: For much of the 1920s, he lived on Eddy Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District (Dashiell) Hammett |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | AUTHORS: "Love" is within the titles of 3 of his most famous books; a fourth, "The Rainbow", calls love "the flower of life" (D.H.) Lawrence |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | AUTHORS' WIVES: When asked if she was the inspiration for the wife in a 1922 novel, this woman replied, "No. She was much fatter" Nora Joyce |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Best known for a novel, she wrote at least 6 full-length plays & collaborated with Moms Mabley on a 1931 Broadway revue Zora Neale Hurston |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AUTHORS' AFTERLIVES: After his death his son Michel reworked & published manuscripts like one about a meteor made of gold heading for Earth Jules Verne |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | FRENCH AUTHORS: Trained as a priest & a physician, in 1532 he published his first novel under the pen name Alcofribas Nasier (François) Rabelais |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1950 the Swedish Academy said this Nobel Prize winner "is a regional writer" but called "his regionalism universal" William Faulkner |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In "A Room of One’s Own", the "four famous names" are Austen, 2 Brontës & this author who died closest to Virginia Woolf’s own time George Eliot |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AUTHORS: He dedicated books to each of his 4 wives, including Hadley Richardson & Martha Gellhorn Ernest (Papa) Hemingway |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: In 1930 this author wrote "Murder at Full Moon", a horror-mystery novel set in a fictional town in Central California (John) Steinbeck |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | FEMALE AUTHORS: At age 9 in 1883 she moved west, where she met Annie Pavelka, a young pioneer on whom she would later model a title character Willa Cather |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | 20th CENTURY FRENCH AUTHORS: He said a famous book of his was inspired by a visit to the zoo, where he observed the gorillas' humanlike expressions Pierre Boulle (author of Planet of the Apes) |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | AUTHORS: In 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of this man's "victorious attempt... to snatch every instant of his existence from his future death" (Albert) Camus |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 21st CENTURY AUTHORS: Once a journalist himself, he began his first novel with his hero being fined 150,000 kronor for aggravated libel Stieg Larsson |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In a periodical in 1807, he called New York City "Gotham, Gotham! most enlightened of cities" Washington Irving |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS: In the 1950s the New York Times said this author "is writing about all lust" & his lecherous narrator "is all of us" (Vladimir) Nabokov |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS: Early in her career she translated romance novels into Spanish, often changing the dialogue to make the heroines smarter (Isabel) Allende |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: Reversing the story of this heroine she created, Patricia MacLachlan was born on the prairie but spent much of her life in New England Sarah (Wheaton) |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: A trip to El Paso with his young son & wondering what the city might look like years in the future inspired a novel by this author Cormac McCarthy |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | AUTHORS: When Esquire began as a men's lifestyle magazine in the 1930s, he was asked for manly content & wrote in 28 of the first 33 issues (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AUTHORS: Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel (Jules) Verne |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BEFORE THEY WERE AUTHORS: While working for British naval intelligence during World War II, he was code-named 17F Ian Fleming |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Early in his career he worked for a newspaper whose style guide said, "use short sentences" & "use vigorous English" (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels (Mary) Shelley |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS: The Old Courthouse Museum in Monroeville, Alabama has exhibits devoted to these 2 authors & childhood friends (Harper) Lee & (Truman) Capote |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | AUTHORS: These 2 men who both died in Boston in the mid-20th century each won 4 Pulitzers, one man for Poetry & the other for Drama (Robert) Frost & (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: He has studied Cordon Bleu cooking, but is known for his 1981 creation of a character with unconventional taste in cuisine Thomas Harris |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | AUTHORS: In addition to knowing many languages & making up his own, he also taught language at the universities of Leeds & Oxford J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: "Camelot", "The Pilgrims" & "A Postscript by Clarence" are chapters in a classic novel by this author Mark Twain |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: In books by him, the Kingdom of Noland, ruled by an orphan named Bud, borders a country called Ix, where Queen Zixi reigns (Lyman Frank) Baum |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | AUTHORS: BOOK TO SCREEN: Horrified by the 1964 movie musical from her work, she okayed a U.K. stage version as long as "no Americans" were involved (P.L.) Travers |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a 1959 article he wrote, "People began to call themselves beatniks, beats... bugniks &... I was called the 'avatar' of all this" Jack Kerouac |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Reluctant to write what became her most famous novel, she said, "Never liked girls or knew many, except my sisters" (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | AUTHORS: On this woman's passing in 2019, Oprah Winfrey called her "a magician with language, who understood the power of words" Toni Morrison |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: Publishers Weekly has dubbed this former middle school English teacher turned bestselling author "Storyteller of the Gods" Rick Riordan |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: She published under her middle name; her first name was Nelle, Ellen backward in honor of her grandmother Ellen Finch Harper Lee |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS: 2 events figure prominently in her 2003 memoir: a coup in Chile on September 11, 1973 & the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 Isabel Allende |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | QUOTES ABOUT 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author "showed that abysses may exist inside a governess", a heroine who was a "commonplace spinster" Charlotte Brontë |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: Now in her 70s, this author splits her time between Paris & San Francisco, often writing 20 to 22 hours a day on an old typewriter Danielle Steel |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BRITISH AUTHORS: In 2016 the OED celebrated his 100th birthday by adding words connected to his writings, including scrumdiddlyumptious Roald Dahl |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In 1947 she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee on how the film "Song of Russia" was Communist propaganda Ayn Rand |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: When he didn't win the inaugural 1901 Nobel Prize, 42 of his peers apologized to him, calling him "the most revered patriarch of today's literature" Leo Tolstoy |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: This author & illustrator who won the 1964 Caldecott Medal was dubbed the "Picasso of children's books" Maurice Sendak |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS: An award for works of horror, dark fantasy & psychological suspense honors this author who came to fame with a 1948 short story Shirley Jackson |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | 20th CENTURY BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He once said, "In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage...who we are and where we have come from" Alex Haley |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Alfred Hitchcock wrote, "It's because I liked" his "stories so much that I began to make suspense films" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS: Born in 1866, he has been called "the Shakespeare of science fiction" H.G. Wells |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | AUTHORS: The first novelist on Forbes' list of billionaires, this author fell off in 2012 after giving an estimated $160 mil. to charity J.K. Rowling |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: In the preface to a book of his stories, he thanks a herpetologist of upper India & an elephant named Bahadur Shah Rudyard Kipling |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The 1877 novel "Garth", about a New Hampshire family cursed by an ancestor's crime, is by Julian, son of this novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | AUTHORS: After this woman's death, her daughter wrote, "As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y" Sue Grafton |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Her 1896 New York Times obituary called her "the writer of probably the most widely read work of fiction ever penned" Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author whom Helen Keller could identify by his cigar scent was the first to call Anne Sullivan a "miracle worker" Mark Twain |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS: Whitman said this man's poetry has "a propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | U.S. AUTHORS: In his 1958 essay "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose", he compared a writing technique to a jazz musician's style Jack Kerouac |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | AUTHORS: A prefatory poem he wrote to one of his novels tells of "the dream-child moving through a land of wonders wild and new" Lewis Carroll |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | ARTISTS & AUTHORS: In 1929 Georgia O'Keeffe painted the tree in New Mexico under which this British-born author used to write D.H. Lawrence |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AUTHORS: This Pulitzer winner changed his first name to that of an Irish king, avoiding associations with a famous ventriloquist's dummy Cormac McCarthy |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: His first novel, from 1920, incorporated some of his pieces from The Nassau, a Princeton literary magazine F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: Cliffs Notes says a book by this man "was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist" Lewis Carroll |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | ANCIENT AUTHORS: His famous work culminates in accounts of Xerxes' invasion & Greek victories at Salamis & Plataea Herodotus |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | WOMEN AUTHORS: A 1936 New York Times review called the debut novel by this author "in all probability, the biggest book of the year: 1,037 pages" Margaret Mitchell |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Leviathan is a journal put out 3 times a year by an organization dedicated to this author & his works Herman Melville |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: "The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots", written by her in 1914, was first published in 2016 Beatrix Potter |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS: His tombstone in a Hampshire churchyard reads, "Knight, patriot, physician & man of letters" & "22 May 1859-7 July 1930" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: His official website says, "It is forty years since I hung up my cloak and dagger" John le Carré |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | AUTHORS: Asked if he read novels, philosopher Gilbert Ryle said, "Yes, all six, every year", referring to this British author Jane Austen |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | AUTHORS: In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to California "in search of something they don't really find" Jack Kerouac |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: On his 1849 death, it was said he was "regarded rather with curiosity than admiration" & "few will be grieved" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | AUTHORS: She wrote in her journal in 1867 that a publisher "asked me to write a girls book. Said I'd try." Louisa May Alcott |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AUTHORS: A critic said that this bestselling author "makes me wish there were more than 26 letters" Sue Grafton |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: At 24 he began a verse retelling the Cupid & Psyche myth, including a character named Caspian C.S. Lewis |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | DYSTOPIAN AUTHORS: The author of his own dystopian classic in 1932, this man taught a young George Orwell at Eton Aldous Huxley |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | AUTHORS: In 1990 he said, "I would like to do what Faulkner did; carve out a little piece of Mississippi territory & claim it for my own" John Grisham |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He was the first to have both fiction & nonfiction No. 1 New York Times best sellers; the latter featured his beloved poodle John Steinbeck |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: "To explain... Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt", he wrote in 1927 Hermann Hesse |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS: This woman who passed away in 2015 wrote what is billed as Australia's "Gone with the Wind" Colleen McCullough |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Published for the first time in 2014, her "Pioneer Girl" was initially rejected, revised & transformed into a fictional series Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: In an essay, he wrote, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion" Thoreau |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In addition to her novels, she also wrote a children's book about Sun Yat-sen & an "Oriental Cookbook" Pearl Buck |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | AUTHORS & FILMMAKERS: This author had a bitter feud with Michael Moore over the title of a 2004 documentary Ray Bradbury |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Celebrated in April, National Robotics Week honors this man who coined the word "robotics" in a 1941 story Isaac Asimov |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | AMERICAN-BORN AUTHORS: In 1915 his reasons for naturalization included "having lived and worked in England for the best part of forty years" Henry James |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | AUTHORS: In 1937 his sister said he had "hats of every description" which he would use as a "foundation of his next book" Dr. Seuss |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS: The Pharmaceutical Journal praised her 1920 first novel, saying it dealt "with poisons in a knowledgeable way" Agatha Christie |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS: Due to injuries suffered in 2 plane crashes in Africa, he was unable to accept his 1954 Nobel Prize in person Ernest Hemingway |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS: The author of more than 50 books, he won 6 Hugo awards & was nominated for a 1968 Oscar Arthur C. Clarke |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS: He's the most recent winner of 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, winning in 1982 & 1991 for books in the same series John Updike |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | AUTHORS: On his death in 1862 a Massachusetts paper said, "No man ever lived closer to nature, and reported her secrets more eloquently" Thoreau |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS: Readers' letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch Shirley Jackson |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | AUTHORS: "The American Tolkien" was what Time magazine called this author with the same 2 middle initials as Tolkien George R.R. Martin |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | AUTHORS: An international airport in Jamaica is named for this author who set many of his stories of the 1950s & 1960s there Ian Fleming |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | AUTHORS: He quit pursuing a Ph.D. in 1926 to pursue drawing, but you might say he gave himself the degree anyway Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | AUTHORS IN THE NEWS: When Curiosity touched down on Mars in 2012, its landing site was named in honor of this author who died weeks before Ray Bradbury |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | AUTHORS: In hiding when his life was threatened, Salman Rushdie paid tribute to Conrad & Chekhov by using this pseudonym Joseph Anton |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: His works include "Sylvie and Bruno", "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems" & "Algebraic Formulae and Rules" Lewis Carroll |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | AUTHORS: This author who passed away in 2012 quipped, "For those who haven't read the books, I am known best for my hair preparations" Gore Vidal |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1925 she visited a floating theater docked in North Carolina to research her next novel (Edna) Ferber |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS: The first of Jane Austen's 6 novels to be published in her lifetime, its title is last alphabetically Sense and Sensibility |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1886 he wrote, "My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water" Mark Twain |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | BIOGRAPHIES ABOUT AUTHORS: Chapters in a biography on this author include "Declaring His Genius" and "A Late Victorian Love Affair" Oscar Wilde |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: Amazon said this author who died in 2004 was the first to sell a million Kindle e-books Stieg Larsson |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | AUTHORS: In 1890 he captained the stern-wheeler Roi des Belges on a voyage down the Congo River Joseph Conrad |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | AUTHORS: His multi-novel series is based on Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" Stephen King |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: One of this author's greatest successes came after remarking, "I want to write about a fellow who was two fellows" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS: 1 of the 2 American women authors nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938 (1 of) Pearl Buck & Margaret Mitchell |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He was born in NYC on April 3, 1783, toward the end of the Revolutionary War, & named for one of the war's heroes Washington Irving |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | 18th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or "Dean" Jonathan Swift |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | BRITISH AUTHORS: She described her work as "human nature in the Midland Counties" & involving "three or four families in a country village" Jane Austen |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | AUTHORS: He died in 1995, the day before the opening of a Glasgow veterinary library named for him James Herriot |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS: Faulkner said this writer "has no courage" & "has never used a word where the reader (may need) a dictionary" Ernest Hemingway |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: A novel set during the Depression earned this author a 1940 Pulitzer Prize & contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in 1962 John Steinbeck |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | AUTHORS: This author whose 1st name is also an English word meaning a saying or motto was the 1st president of the Soviet writers' union Maxim Gorky |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | FRENCH AUTHORS: Published posthumously in 1970, his first novel, "A Happy Death", features a protagonist named Patrice Mersault Albert Camus |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | BRITISH AUTHORS: His son Christopher said, my father "got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders" A.A. Milne |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: Since coming on the beat, he's had more N.Y. Times bestsellers than any other author, including over 20 in the last 5 years James Patterson |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel L. Frank Baum |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | AUTHORS: In "Comics Review" in 1965, "I was a Teenage Grave Robber" was his first published work; he's still going strong Stephen King |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | AUTHORS' QUOTATIONS: "I had no idea of originating an American flapper... I simply took girls whom I knew very well" & "used them for my heroines" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS: Though known for writing nonsense verse, he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons & Tennyson wrote a poem to him Edward Lear |
| #5739, aired 2009-07-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS: As a child, she liked to play witches & wizards with her friends Ian & Vikki Potter J.K. Rowling |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | WORLD AUTHORS: Chapters in an 1831 work by this author include "Maitre Jacques Coppenole" & "A Tear for a Drop of Water" Victor Hugo |
| #5665, aired 2009-04-03 | AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN NOVELS: A manipulative widow goes husband-hunting in "Lady Susan", finally published in 1871, 54 years after her death Jane Austen |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | AUTHORS: In 1865 he wrote the line "You're nothing but a pack of cards!" Lewis Carroll |
| #5502, aired 2008-07-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1900 the Atlantic Monthly published his story "An Odyssey of the North", his literary breakthrough Jack London |
| #5486, aired 2008-06-16 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1958 he wrote, "Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires was the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost" Truman Capote |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: In 1896 he said his mother had lost her childhood at 8; he "knew a time would come when I also must give up the games" J.M. Barrie |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | AUTHORS: Sherwood Anderson told him, write about what "you know... that little patch... in Mississippi where you started from" William Faulkner |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | WORLD AUTHORS: In 1898 he wrote, "As for the persons I have accused... they are... embodiments of social malfeasance" Émile Zola |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | AUTHORS' OBITUARIES: In 1991 the N.Y. Times said English was "too skimpy for so rich an imagination"; his language & meter were irresistible Dr. Seuss |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | AUTHORS: Her first published writings appeared in the Shanghai Mercury when she was 7 Pearl Buck |
| #5338, aired 2007-11-21 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: In 1833 a French historian said that this author had built "a cathedral as solid as the foundations of the other (one)" Victor Hugo |
| #5296, aired 2007-09-24 | AUTHORS: Chapters in a 1914 novel by this author include "Jungle Battles", "His Own Kind" & "The Call of the Primitive" Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | AUTHORS: In 1949 he wrote, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever" (George) Orwell |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Injured on the Austro-Italian front of July 8, 1918, he also crossed the English Channel with U.S. forces on D-Day Ernest Hemingway |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS: Starting in 1948 at Cornell, he lectured on books written in his native language, like "Dead Souls" & "Anna Karenina" Vladimir Nabokov |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS: He wrote, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and spartan-like..." Thoreau |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He had the year's bestselling novel a record 7 years in a row with 7 different titles, ending in 2000 John Grisham |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author was born in 1926, the daughter of Amasa, an Alabama lawyer, & Frances, whose maiden name was Finch Harper Lee |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | AUTHORS: John Dryden in 1683 was the first to use the term "biography"--appropriately, while writing about this Greek Plutarch |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN AUTHORS: Henry James called her "the Thackeray, the Trollope, of the nursery and the schoolroom" Louisa May Alcott |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: This author & illustrator has said, "Max is like my demented son and he's taking care of his father for life" Maurice Sendak |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | AUTHORS: Author seen here with his son A.A. Milne |
| #4971, aired 2006-04-03 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The grandson of a humorist, the son of a children's author, his first novel in 1974 was huge bestseller Peter Benchley |
| #4807, aired 2005-06-28 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: In 1956 she published "Venice Observed" & her brother Kevin starred in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" Mary McCarthy |
| #4800, aired 2005-06-17 | AUTHORS: This writer was born in Germantown, Penn. on Nov. 29, 1832, the second of 4 daughters Louisa May Alcott |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Born of Norwegian descent in 1916, he was given the first name of a famous Norwegian of the time Roald Dahl |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: In 2000 this writer, with more than 100 million copies of novels in print, had a new species of dinosaur named for him Michael Crichton |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: This Russian-born author & scientist who died in 1992 said, "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them" Isaac Asimov |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | AUTHORS: He publicly objected to the name of a 2004 documentary for infringing on the title of one of his books Ray Bradbury |
| #4667, aired 2004-12-14 | AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS: The only Oscar winner also to win a Nobel Prize, this European won a 1938 Oscar for adapting his own play George Bernard Shaw |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | AUTHORS: After several decades off it, works by this man seen here returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003 J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: After WWI he wrote, "To develop a horse-surgery… would necessitate a knowledge of horse language" Hugh Lofting (author of the Doctor Dolittle books) |
| #4604, aired 2004-09-16 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Ford Madox Ford, in the ‘20s, hadn’t “read more than six words” by this man before vowing to “publish everything he sent me” Ernest Hemingway |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He called himself a "Cubano Sato", a phrase from the Cuban dialect meaning both "flirt" & "half-breed" Ernest Hemingway |
| #4386, aired 2003-10-06 | AUTHORS: He chose a quotation by Scott Joplin as the epigraph for a 1975 novel E.L. Doctorow |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: The main library at the University of Northern Colorado is named for this alumnus who wrote an epic of Colorado in 1974 James Michener (the novel was "Centennial") |
| #4245, aired 2003-01-31 | AUTHORS: In September 2002 he offered $10,000 to help capture the person who burned down Iowa's Cedar Bridge Robert James Waller (author of "The Bridges of Madison County") |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | AUTHORS: In September 1941 this author christened the warship Atlanta, also known as "The Mighty A" Margaret Mitchell |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | WOMEN AUTHORS: A line in her first novel reads, "I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty" Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club) |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | RENAISSANCE AUTHORS: In the 16th century he wrote, "Whoever wishes to found a state…must start with assuming that all men are bad…" Machiavelli |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | AUTHORS: Like one of his most famous heroines, he died at a train station in 1910 Tolstoy |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: One of the world's bestselling novelists, he created TV's "I Dream of Jeannie" Sidney Sheldon |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In 1935 she sent a telegram to a Macmillan editor: "Please send manuscript back I've changed my mind" Margaret Mitchell ("Gone with the Wind") |
| #3908, aired 2001-09-05 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: D.H. Lawrence called him "an adventurer into the vaults and...
horrible underground passages of the human soul" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | AUTHORS: The Prague tombstone of this German-language writer who died in 1924 is inscribed in Hebrew Franz Kafka |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AUTHORS: In May 1973 Sports Illustrated ran one of his short stories under the title "A Day of Wine and Roses" Dick Francis |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | AUTHORS OF THE 1920s: Lawrence Durrell said that in a 1928 novel this man used 4-letter words to canonize & celebrate raw sensuality D.H. Lawrence ("Lady Chatterley's Lover") |
| #3832, aired 2001-04-10 | FILMS & AUTHORS: "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" in 1953 was the 1st live-action feature film from this author's works; a 2nd was released in 2000 Dr. Seuss |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1900 he sent the Library of Congress $2.20 to copyright his "The Navy Alphabet" & another, more "Wonderful", book L. Frank Baum |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS: A conversation he had with Miles Davis became the first of the “Playboy Interviews” in 1962 Alex Haley |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | AUTHORS: In 1961 John F. Kennedy helped this man's widow get permission to go to Cuba to pick up her late husband's papers Ernest Hemingway |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: Famous profession of the woman who wrote the 1999 inspirational book "The Long Program" Ice/Figure Skater (book written by Peggy Fleming) |
| #3598, aired 2000-04-05 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: The name of this author who died in 1924 has become an adjective meaning surreal or nightmarish Franz Kafka (Kafkaesque) |
| #3534, aired 2000-01-06 | NONFICTION AUTHORS: First published in 1946, a book written by this man became the bestselling book in the U.S. after the Bible Dr. Benjamin Spock ("Baby and Child Care") |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | AUTHORS: In 1594 he took a job as a tax collector in Andalusia Miguel de Cervantes |
| #3517, aired 1999-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: His bestselling first novel, published in 1846, was set in Polynesia Herman Melville ("Typee") |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: His "Fictional Memoir" about his last African safari was published in 1999, 38 years after his death Ernest Hemingway |
| #3465, aired 1999-10-01 | AUTHORS: In 1995 a library at the Glasgow Veterinary School was named in his honor James Herriot |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | BRITISH AUTHORS: In 1954 she became the first recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America Agatha Christie |
| #3375, aired 1999-04-16 | AUTHORS: In January 1999 this author issued a public statement reminding the world the third millennium really begins Jan. 1, 2001 Arthur C. Clarke |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | IRISH-BORN AUTHORS: Once a drama critic in his native Dublin, he toured the U.S. as an actor's manager, but never visited Romania Bram Stoker |
| #3345, aired 1999-03-05 | AUTHORS: In June 1998 a museum dedicated to this author opened in Salinas, California John Steinbeck |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | AUTHORS: In 1745 he bequeathed his estate to be used for the founding of a hospital for the mentally ill in Dublin Jonathan Swift |
| #3244, aired 1998-10-15 | BRITISH AUTHORS: Among the poems this British novelist wrote in the 1920s were "Men in New Mexico" & "Autumn at Taos" D.H. Lawrence |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | SPORTS AUTHORS: Hemingway described this writer's 1961 book "Out of My League" as "The dark side of... Walter Mitty" George Plimpton |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: This author born in 1904 grew up near Mulberry Street in Springfield, Massachusetts Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS: He also created a 2-letter land called Ix L. Frank Baum (creator of the Wizard of Oz) |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He launched his lecturing career in 1866 with a talk later titled "Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands" Mark Twain |
| #3108, aired 1998-02-18 | AUTHORS: He claimed that as a Pinkerton detective, he had worked the Fatty Arbuckle & Nicky Arnstein cases Dashiell Hammett |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | WOMEN AUTHORS: Tourists may visit the Chawton, England home of this sensible 19th C. novelist, still popular today Jane Austen |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: One of the USA's greatest novelists, he lived most of his life, from 1876 to 1916, in England Henry James |
| #2971, aired 1997-06-30 | AUTHORS: A new theory says this author died of rabies, not alcoholism or drug abuse, October 7, 1849 Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2882, aired 1997-02-25 | FAMOUS AUTHORS: Queen Victoria called his death "a very great loss. He had... the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes" Charles Dickens |
| #2843, aired 1997-01-01 | AUTHORS: In 1996, 7 years after giving up law, he returned to a Mississippi courtroom & won a case for an old client John Grisham |
| #2798, aired 1996-10-30 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: His only full-length play, "The Fifth Column", is set in besieged Madrid Ernest Hemingway |
| #2779, aired 1996-10-03 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: He rejected offers to run for Congress & Mayor of New York & to be Van Buren's Secretary of the Navy Washington Irving |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | AUTHORS: He adapted a rejected treatise on exploring Africa by balloon into an 1863 novel, his first big success Jules Verne |
| #2654, aired 1996-02-29 | AUTHORS: He created his most famous character in 1952 at Goldeneye, a holiday home he bought in Jamaica Ian Fleming |
| #2596, aired 1995-12-11 | BRITISH AUTHORS: Among guests who surprised him on a 1994 British "This is Your Life" were Buzz Aldrin & Alexi Leonov Arthur C. Clarke |
| #2531, aired 1995-09-11 | FRENCH AUTHORS: In 1881 Paris' Avenue d'Eylau was renamed for this author who lived on it in honor of his 80th year Victor Hugo |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | MODERN AUTHORS: His last novel opens in Yokohama on 14th September 1862 James Clavell |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | AUTHORS: His father, Apollo Korzeniowski, helped organize Polish rebellion against Russia in the 1860s Joseph Conrad |
| #2398, aired 1995-01-25 | AUTHORS: Once rejected as too far-fetched, his 1863 novel "Paris in the 20th Century" was published for the 1st time in 1994 Jules Verne |
| #2395, aired 1995-01-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In 1910 she became the first woman novelist elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #2387, aired 1995-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: Among his books are "About Zionism" & "The Evolution of Physics" Albert Einstein |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He was 50 yards from victory in Britain's Grand National Steeplechase of 1956 when his horse collapsed Dick Francis |
| #2314, aired 1994-09-29 | ART & AUTHORS: The Honolulu Academy of Arts has this U.S. author's collection of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints James Michener |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | AUTHORS: The novelist who wrote, "The beginning of the end of war lies in remembrance" Herman Wouk |
| #2292, aired 1994-07-19 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: D.H. Lawrence said he probably did "more than any writer to present the Red Man to the white man" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #2268, aired 1994-06-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: JFK donated some of this book's royalties to the city of Plymouth in Great Britain Why England Slept |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | AUTHORS: Her last book "A Garland For Girls" was completed shortly before her death in 1888 Louisa May Alcott |
| #2218, aired 1994-04-06 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In the 1920s she wrote, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" Virginia Woolf |
| #2057, aired 1993-07-13 | FAMOUS AUTHORS: He used his fishing boat, the Pilar, for counter-intelligence work during World War II Ernest Hemingway |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: First published in 1732, its author said it sold "annually, near ten thousand" Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #1924, aired 1993-01-07 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: In 1863 he published his rules for castle croquet, which he played with the Liddell Sisters Lewis Carroll |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES: Author DuBose Heyward was born in this city & set his most famous work on its waterfront Charleston |
| #1832, aired 1992-07-14 | GERMAN AUTHORS: Composer Paul Dukas based "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" on a story by this poet, novelist & scientist Goethe |
| #1768, aired 1992-04-15 | AUTHORS: His exact birthday is unknown, but it's believed to be Sept. 29, 1547, the feast day of San Miguel Miguel de Cervantes |
| #1709, aired 1992-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In 1901 she published what has become the best-selling children's book of all time Beatrix Potter |
| #1656, aired 1991-11-11 | AUTHORS: His father was a general under Napoleon & he took part in Garibaldi's liberation of Sicily in 1860 Alexandre Dumas |
| #1598, aired 1991-07-10 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: A 40-year old widower, he was engaged to remarry when he died mysteriously in Baltimore in 1849 Edgar Allan Poe |
| #1586, aired 1991-06-24 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Named for a U.S. president, this author wrote a 5-volume biography of that president in the 1850s Washington Irving |
| #1406, aired 1990-10-15 | BRITISH AUTHORS: He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature who was born in Asia; he won in 1907 Rudyard Kipling |
| #1356, aired 1990-06-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He wrote: "They spell it Vinci & pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce" Mark Twain |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1839, at age 19, he joined the crew of the freighter St. Lawrence that ran between NYC & Liverpool Herman Melville |
| #1290, aired 1990-03-23 | AUTHORS: After his death in 1745, he was buried in St. Patrick's cathedral in Dublin Jonathan Swift |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He died at age 28, just 5 years after his Civil War novel was published Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage) |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: The 1st book in David Saperstein's trilogy that continued into "Metamorphosis" & will end with "Butterfly" Cocoon |
| #1018, aired 1989-01-25 | AUTHORS: This U.S. poet laureate is the only writer who won Pulitzer Prizes for both poetry & fiction Robert Penn Warren |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | AUTHORS: One of this author's two middle names was Balfour Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson |
| #785, aired 1988-01-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: Born in Bengal in 1903, this author's most famous book was set 81 years later George Orwell |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: Upon completion of his "Answered Prayers", this late author would have received $1 million Truman Capote |
